The Afro-American Advance

TWIN CITY NEWS. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Telephone Connection. OLSON EARL UNDERTAKER, Funeral Director and Embalmer. 1503 E. Franklin Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. PIANOS SOLD DIRECT TO THE PEOPLE CABLE CONOVER KINGSBURY WELLINGTON, SCHUBERT And other Pianos less expensive but good for prices asked. From the Largest Manufacturers of Pianos in the World THE CABLE CO., Minneapolis Branch, 56 Seventh St. So., Bet. Nicollet and Hennepin. FRANK B. LONG, Manager. VOL. II. NO. 26. ST. PAUL. Now that your house cleaning is all over, suppose you visit THE ORIENTAL HAIR PARLORS, on the corner of Seventh and Sibley, room 205 Beamher block, and get your hair cleaned. You will look good and feel good. Mrs. E. J. Allen, proprietress. Hello! I want to tell Madam E. Luverne Adams, the fashionable dressmaker on Wabasha street, No. 418, that I desire her to make me one of those summer creations, all over lace and tucks, that is so swell. I am going to Mrs. Newrich's musicale and I must have it. Correspondence, letters, etc., must reach us by Wednesday for publication. 395 Thomas street. If you are living to eat, or eating to live, the Godfrey Boarding House is the place for you. The best is served at a price you can afford. 148 East Ninth street. Madam E. Luverne Adams' fashionable dress maker parlors, 418 Wabash street (upstairs). Dr. J. E. Porter, physician and surgeon, room 410 Washburn building, St. Paul, Minn., residence 453 Carroll st. Miss Lizzie Roach lies quite ill at the residence of Mrs. Kellum on Rondo street. The birthday party given by Mrs. W. E. Stanton and Mrs. McClain on Martin street Tuesday evening was quite a nice little affair and the church will realize a neat sum from it. Mrs. J. E. Johnson, of 395 Thomas street, is suffering with inflammatory rheumatism, and is confined to the bed. The "Advance Woman" is in receipt of a very flattering letter from Mr. Chas. Stewart, the "Josh Billings of Negro Journalism." "Charlie" said some very nice things to us, for which we are very thankful. We feel honored to bask in the friendship of such an one, and wish for him a long successful career in his beloved newspaper world. St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 15, 1900. The friends of St. James A. M. E. S. S. are invited to be out on Sunday morning, 10th inst., at 9 a. m., to witness the graduating exercise of a nice little class of boys and girls from the primary department to the main school. There will be an exercise under the direction of the primary superintendent, Mrs J. C. Anderson, and assistants. The main school will render such assistance as they can by good singing. All are welcome.—James P. Anderson, superintendent. "THE REST IS SILENCE." The Death of Mrs. Milton Fogg is a Shock to the Community. The whole community was startled at the sad intelligence of the death in our midst of Mrs. Milton Fogg Monday evening, Aug. 13, at the family residence, 437 Rondo street. Florence Virginia Philips married Milton Fogg, in 1863, in the city of Nashville, Tenn., and when she died had been married thirty-seven years. Ten children were born to them, six of whom died in infancy, and lie buried in the Southland, with the exception of their baby son, Albert, who died in this city. Four children, Maggie, their mother: Mrs. Maggie Irwin, Chas. H., Melinda, Milton F., Jr., and Thos. I, Irvin, son-in-law. Mrs. Fogg was a consistent Christian, and devoted mother and faithful wife. She endeavored at all times to do unto others as she wished to be done by. She was a member of the Baptist church at Nashville, Tenn., and although she has made this city her home for 10 years, she never moved her church to Nashville, and return to the scents of childhood and end her days among the friends that knew her best some day. God willed it differently, and after a long illness of more than ten years, she laid down her burden and went home to the Savior. The funeral was conducted by Rev. J. C. Anderson, of St. James A. M. E. church, assisted by Rev. Carter* of Pilgrim Baptist church. The old songs that she loved were sung and the Rev. Anderson talked from the 39th chapter of Proverbs: "Her children shall care for her, and the most beautiful and touching sermons that the young divine ever delivered, and will be long remembered." The Fogg family was a typical one of devotion, and the ties that were severed by the death of the mother will not soon heal. They are not alone, however, in their bereavement, as was evidenced by the many beautiful floral tributes that were piled high on the beloved form by sorrowing friends. The burial took place at beautiful Oakland cemetery, beside the grave of her last Minneapolis Historical Society The Afro-American Advance. born, little Albert, laid there twelve years ago. Miss Mable Moffit surprised her friends as well as her parents by taking a quiet little trip to Minneapolis Wednesday evening and came back Mrs. Henry Southall. The Advance extends best wishes and a long life of happiness. AFRO-AMERICAN COUNCIL. To the Officers and Members of the National Afro-American Council. You are hereby called to meet in National convention, in the Senate Chamber, Indianapolis, Ind., on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 1900, at to o'clock a m. for the discussion of questions affecting the interests of the race; to elect officers for the ensuing year; to devise plans, and to take such action as may be deemed best for the protection and advancement of the Afro-American people. Some of the most able speakers of the race will discuss questions of vital interest to the race in general. THE ORIENTAL HAIR PAR-LORS, on the corner of Seventh and Sibley streets, room 205, Krahmier block, is the place to go for all kinds of fashionable hair dressing, etc. Straightening hair and scalp treatment a special service for scalp care made at residences. Prices made satisfactory. Mrs. E. J. Allen, proprietor. JUST LOOK HERE We will not insult your intelligence. We think you know that no man can continue in business unless he receives patronage from the people. An up-to-date meal, or a cosy room can be had in Godfrey's, 148 East Ninth Street. MINNEAPOLIS Mr. Richard Mann received the sad intelligence Thursday of the death of his mother, Mrs. Lucy Mann, of Milan, Tenn. Mr. Alex Mann left for his home Monday and arrived on time to see her before she died. Mrs. Ellis left Wednesday to visit her daughters in Seattle, Wash. After an extended visit with her son, Mr. Arthur Ellis. Mrs. S. B. Stokes will leave for Spokane soon to make it her home. Mrs. Rufus Deleo visited St. Paul Wednesday to attend the Fogg funeral. Little Ruby Coleman is on the sick list. The rally at Bethesda church was a grand success in every particular. Over two hundred and twenty-five dollars has already been reported. Miss Lulu Blair won the first prize at the oratorical contest. Don't give Minneapolis out. Mrs. Wesley Rogers and friends gave a very delightful picnic Thursday at Mimchah Falls in honor of Mrs. Johnson, of Chicago. Rev. Mrs. Mason is holding forth at Bedford avenue, and draws large crowds nightly. Have you been out? For good cigars call at W. S. Conrad's corner of First avenue south and Fourt hstreet. He will suit you. Go to John L. Neal, Real Estate, Loans and Insurance, 622 Boston Block. The Advance Restaurant, 214 Washington avenue south, is up to date in service and equipment. If you want a good meal in a clean place don't fail to go to the Advance Restaurant. Rev. Lena Mason will hold a camp meeting for the benefit of the poor, under the auspices of the Mason Society, at Bedford avenue, three blocks from Midway, Tuesday, August 14th. Mrs. S. A. Gould, Pres. Mrs. S. Simerman, Sec. An Overworked Bird. Dorothy-Our Audubon club had a lovely meeting this afternoon. Appeal. We passed you with enthusiastic resolution appointing a committee to take immediate steps-right off, you know-for the protection of the cuckoo." "The cuckoo?" "In the cuckoo, you know-for the protection of the cuckoo," Physical Reaction. Brown—How do you feel about Sunday golf? Jones--Don't tell that I said so, but I have heard sermons so long lately that they made me want to go out and take a whack at something--Indianapolis Journal. Sweet Labor--"How is it you're such a great worker?" asked the grasshopper. "Because I love work," replied the busy bee. "I may have been a bit nervous, you may have noticed, when my busiest season is on I'm in clover."-Philadelphia Press. The difference between see and saw is intense--Chicago Daily News. MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL, MINN., SATURDAY, AUG. 18, 1900. A POLITICAL POTPOURRI. Evidence is not wanting to convince the most sanguine friends of either of the Republican candidates for district judge that at present it is anybody's victory. Judge Steele in his own imitative way is putting up a fight that only a skillful man of affairs is capable of, and Judge Elliot's record on the bench is a tower of strength to him, while C. G. Laybourn is exceedingly strong in the county, and as counsel for the Modern Brotherhood has a backing that cannot be overlooked. Here's hoping the best man will win. James L. Curtis, Esq., who a delegation of representative colored citizens and some of the party leaders endorsed for a position with the Republican state committee, has written a letter to Chairman Masterman in which he says, among other things: "I hereby respectfully withdraw my application and ask that the special committee appointed for the consideration of the same, take no action thereon. After mature deliberation I am convinced that I cannot consistently accept any favors at the hands of your committee. The reasons prompting my course in this regard I will at a later date give you, more in detail. The predicted collapse of the Ames boom for mayor is apparently as far from realization now as at any time since the announcement of his candidacy. Those well posted say that the nominee, should he be other than Dr. Ames, will have an excellent opinion of his running ability. W. R. Morris, the attorney, denies that he and Messrs. Neal and Gibbs appeared before the Republican state committee and claiming to speak for the colored citizens of Minnesota, asked that the first named gentleman be allowed to manage the campaign among the Afro-Americans, and to dispense the post-election patronage to be given to this contingent. Jay W. Phillips, the popular deputy sheriff, and candidate for representative of the 42nd legislative district, is well nigh ubiquitous, and is pushing his candidacy vigorously. Keep your eye on Jay! There are Republicans who are claiming that the disfranchisement of the negroes in North Carolina will injure to the benefit of the Republican party in November. Why? It is said that Gov. Roosevelt will speak in Minneapolis early in September. The shrievalty situation becomes more complicated with each passing day, and it is hard to find one who has the temerity to hazard a prediction on the outcome. The 'steen candidates for municipal judge are pushing their candidacies with unrelenting zeal, and each boldly predicts his own nomination. Lieut-Col. Beck, of Kansas, has been named by the Fusionists of that state, as one of the presidential electors. Col. Beck commanded the colored battalions from Kansas in Cuba. Mr. Gilchrist Stewart, the scholarly young Dakotan who has been in the city for the past ten days, will leave today for Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to tour the state for the Republican nominees. Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Minnesota are to be the battle grounds for the waging of the campaign of 1900, which promises to be the fiercest and most bitterly contested since the campaign of 1800. The candidates for the various offices should, in their canvass, let the people know something about the new primary law. Many of them don't know that the law regulating nominations is changed. THERE EVEN DEATH IS SLOW Where Insurance Agents Are Willing to Take All Kinds of Everybody in the oilcloth and linoleum trade knows “the Potter boys,” of Philadelphia and New York. Col. Tom Potter, of the former city, who got his title through a staff appointment by a former governor of Pennsylvania, said he was a firm believer in that town—in all her institutions, big and little, and in her magnificent future, but he always helps to circulate a good story on Philadelphia, just the same, as he did in his own business. A bustling “free lance” in the life insurance business was over the other day trying to write a $20,000 policy in a New York company for a rising young man who holds an important position with the Potter boys. He calls it “the call,” and he had his intended victim almost worked up to the point of signing the application. “I’ll take the policy,” he said, “but I don’t.” don't want it just yet. Wait a few weeks. "No time like the present time," exclaimed me, and I was in the doorway out in life insurance matters. I'll tell you what I'll do in your case—if you'll make the application now I'll carry the policy myself for you for 30 days." "Oh, I wouldn't have you do that," the young man protested. "I might die within 30 days, and then where would you and your protester go?" "Oh, that's all right, my boy! I'll take the risk. You won't die that quick. Nobody in Philadelphia ever died in 30 days!" He Got Posted. It was an open car. A man of years and sedatness sat next to a young man who he had and without any premonitory. By and by, and without any premonitory symptoms, the sedate man said: "It is in here; I was looking over one of the days of day, day, and I picked out the very words." "What do you refer to?" asked the young man. "To what a woman up my way called me when I asked her to marry me." "What she said." "A concave catalytic semi-annual old idiot. At first I didn't exactly know whether she meant to say yes or turn me down, but after looking in the dictionary I made up my mind that she was not for me, when that was not." those dictionaries were, me you get stuck on a hard word, eb?" —Washington Post. "Now that Belle has secured her divorce, I suppose she is happy." "No, she isn't." She is married again. —Philadelphia North American. Don't give up a bill for lost. The fellow may get married and make it good. —Washington (Ia.) Democrat. As we travel the path of life, we always fancy that the other fellow has the best side of the road. —Town Topics. Under the head of "light refreshments" comes everything that feels heavy when it is down. —Atchison Globe. MAY NOW BE IN PEKING. Remey Reports That Allies Were to Attack the City on Monday. RUMORED RESCUE OF THE LEGATIONS. United States Agrees to Appeal of Li Hung Chng for Armistice on Condition of Safe Delivery of Ministers and Those Under Their Protection at Gate of City. Washington, Aug. 17.—The navy department has made public the following dispatch from Admiral Remey: "Taku, Aug. 15.—Front unbehead from since 118. Leut. Latimer is on Chaffee's staff expressly to lambish me authentic information. Latest reports from Japanese sources say allies occupied Tung-Chow on 12th and would attack Peking today. "REMEY." Peking Entered and Legations Saved. New York, Aug. 17.—A dispatch to the Journal and Advertiser from Chefoo quotes Edwin Wildman, the correspondent, as follows: "I learn from a thoroughly trustworthy Chinese source that the army of the allies reached Peking on Monday. I have every reason to believe that the army forced an entrance and that the envoys and their allies were rescued on Monday, and they are probably now safe with the Christian army." **Japanese Occupy Tung-Chau.** Tokio, Tuesday, Aug. 14.—A semi-official dispatch from Fung-Chow (Tung-Chau'). dated August 12, says: "The Japanese troops, occupied Fung-Chow to-day. We are now ten miles from Peking. The Chinese seem to have retreated towards Peking. Last night a quantity of arms and a granary, with great stores of rice, were captured." **Allies Strain Every Nerve.** London, Aug. 17.—A news agency dispatch from the seat of war reads as follows: "At the front, Aug. 11, via Chefoo, Aug. 14.—The Chinese retreat continues. They will not make a stand. We are only able to force the enemy. The only forced training every nerve to reach the capital before it is too late." Urgent Need of Troops at Shanghai. Berlin, Aug. 17. A semiofficial dispatch from Shanghai, dated Wednesday, August 15, says: "The foreign consuls, acting on a joint resolution, have sent to their respective governments the following telegram: 'We have withdrawn from Wu-Sung it will constitute a menace to the safety of Shanghai. These troops ought to be landed on the basis of an international understanding. To insure the troops ought to be landed immediately." Nothing from Goodnow. Washington, Aug. 17.—Consul General Goodnow has not sent a copy of the resolution said to have been agreed upon by the consuls at Shanghai. His reports are somewhat analogous, however, in advising that any action should be of an international character. Wu Sung, referred to in the Berlin dispatch, is near the city of Shanghai, and occupies about the same relation to it as Coney Island does to New York city. Railroad Repaired. Berlin, Aug. 17.—An undated dispatch from Tientsin says the railroad between Tientsin and Peitsang has been restored and that the Russians are repairing the line in the direction of Peking. Field Marshal Count von Waldersee, commander in chief of the allied forces in China, salts from Naples for the far east August 22. France to Recognize Von Waldersee Paris, Aug. 17.—France has notified Germany that when Field Marshal Count von Waldersee arrives in China, to assume command of the allied forces, Gen. Voyron, the French military commander in chief, will act in perfect accord with him. ARMISTICE ON CONDITIONS. United States Will Accept to Halt Arms at Peking to Receive the Legations. Washington, Aug. 17. A special greeting of the cabinet was held before noon Thursday at which the Chinese situation was thoroughly discussed. The several messages that have been received from Minister Conger and Consul General Goodnow and the appeal of Li Hung Chang that the allied forces halt at Ting Chow in order that an armistice be arranged were carefully considered. An answer was prepared to this appeal in which it is understood this government agrees to an armistice for the purpose of relieving the ministers, the members of the negotiations and the people under their protection, either at the inner gate of the city or the outer gate, whichever the officers in command of the troops may designate, after communicating with the ministers themselves. If the ministers think that arrangements can be made by which their safety will be assured in moving from the British legislation to the inside gate, which is about 200 or 300 yards distant, this government will agree to an armistice for that purpose and after Minister Conger has been safely delivered this government will for a specified time cease hostilities with a view to arranging terms of peace. Statement by State Department. Washington, Aug. 17. - The depart- ment is pleased to announce the ment of state gives out the following: "The department of state received late yesterday afternoon (August 15) a cipher dispatch from Consul General Goodnow, lated the same day, which, on being de- signed, sent an undated message from Minister Congreer tran- from Tat-Nan on the 15th. From internal evidence, it would appear to have left Peking about the 8th or 9th instant. It is very brief, adding little to what already is known. Its most interesting statement be- comes that the American marines and the body of Dr. Inglis, all the Americans are alive, though quite a number are sick." Japan Proposed Armistice. New York Aug. 17.—A cable dismatch from Kobe, Japan, dated Thursday, to the Evening Journal, says: "Japan has proposed an armistice between the powers and China and China has accepted. The terms of the powers are that Japan will be given the protection of the allies at the gates of Peking or that the allies be admitted to Peking to receive them. Japan has begun YOUTSEY IS ILL. May Not Be Able to Go to Trial-Continuation of Speeches in Powers Trial. Georgetown, Ky., Aug. 17—Henry Youtsey, the alleged goeebel conspirator, whose case will be tried next, is quite ill in jail here. He has a high fever and physicians were with him twice Wednesday night. He may be too sick to go into trial. Vistor Bradley, who continued his speech for the prosecution Thursday morning, likened the armed petitioners who went to Frankfort to a high-wayman who draws his revolver and "petitions" the traveler for his purse. At ten o'clock Bradley concluded and J. H. Tinsley, of Barbourville, began for the defense. He said the only well-substantiated statement made by Caleb Powers, before January 30, was to the effect that he would give up his office and everything and go home rather than enter into any sort of a combination with anybody to use cartridges to settle the contest. Population of Greater New York. Washington, Aug. 17.—The census office Thursday morning announced the population of Greater New York (Manhattan and Bronx boroughs) as 2,050,600. The population of the borough of Manhattan is 1,850,093, and that of Bronx, 200,507. The population of New York city in 1890 was 1,515,301. On June 1, 1900, the joint population of the boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx was 2,050,600, representing an increase from 1890 to 1900, including the annexed territory above referred to, of 535,299, or 35.33 per cent. To Protect Ancient Dwellings. Santa Fe, N. M., Aug. 17.—An order has been received from Hon. Binger Hermann, general land commissioner, to withdraw from further entry and sale all the public lands in and about nine townships west of the Rio Grande river around Espanola for the purpose of establishing the proposed park in which are situated hundreds of cliff dwellings and thousands of communal buildings, which are being looted by vandals and relic hunters. Heavy Rain Beneficial. La Crosse, Wis., Aug. 17. During the past 24 hours the Mississippi river at this place has risen a foot and is still going up. The heavy rains in the vicinity of the headwaters are the cause of the rise. The rise has made it possible for the West Newton rifting works, which were closed several weeks on account of low water, to resume operations and this was done Thursday, giving employment to many men. Gates to Enter Politics. New York, Aug. 17.—A dispatch to the Herald from London says: John W. Gates, the American wire and steel magnate, has won nearly $1,000,000 on English race tracks and is about to return to the United States. Mr. Gates when he arrives will enter active politics in Illinois, and try to gain Senator Cullom's seat at Washington. Mr. Gates will sail from Hamburg on Saturday next on the Deutschland. Reaches New York. New York, Aug. 17.—H. E. Huntington, vice president of the Southern Pacific railroad, arrived in Jersey City at 12:45 Thursday on his way to New York to attend the funeral of his uncle Collis P. Huntington. Mr. Huntington was at San Antonio, Tex., on his way to California, when he was notified of his uncle's death, and he at once started for New York. Opensse Gordon's Attendance. New Orleans, Aug. 17. -The Confederate Association of the Army of the Tennessee, which includes a large majority of the confederate veterans in New Orleans, has protested against Gen. J. B. Gordon, commanding the United Confederate veterans, attending the G. A. R. encampment at Chicago. Dead on His Wife's Grave Woodstock, Ont., Aug. 17—Ulrid Rupprecht, a German resident of Norwich, was found dead on the grave of his recently deceased wife Wednesday, having shot himself through the temple. The woman died from poisoning three weeks ago and murder was suspected. President at Washington. Washington, Aug. 17.—The president and Mrs. McKinley, with Secretary Cortelty and Dr. Rixey, arrived at the white house at 8:45 Thursday morning. The trip from Canton was without especial incident. A cabinet meeting has been called for 11 o'clock. Theatrical Man Dead. Montreal, Aug. 17.—James W. Bankson, leading member of the Baldwin-Meiville stock company, died here of typhoid fever. He was born in 1878 at Baltimore, Md. His wife, Lotta Linthicum, is the leading woman in the company. Funeral of American Missionary. New York, Aug. 17.—A dispatch to the Herald from Santiago, Chili, says Many persons were present at the funeral of Rev. Dr. Edson A. Lowe, an American Protestant minister, who died here last Saturday. Wounded in Quarrel Over Debt. Kankakee, Ill.. Aug. 17.—Jules Gravelot was badly wounded by William David at Chebaneh in a quarrel over an old debt. David fired three shots at him with a revolver. INDORSE MR. W. J. BRYAN Resolutions Offered to Anti-Imperialist Convention Favor Support of Democratic Nominee. NAME OF THE NEBRASKAN'S CHEERED The Nationalists Oppose the Adoption of the Resolutions and Want a Third Party Ticket Named—Debate Over the Matter Is Exciting—Adjourn Without Action. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 17. — The delegates to the Liberty congress of the National Anti-Imperialist league were late in assembling in Tomlinson hall for their second day's session. Ex-Gov. Boutwell called the session to order and introduced Rev. S. W. Sample, pastor of the People's church of Minneapolis, who offered prayer. Mr. Sample prayed for a more strict observance of the declaration of independence. Pending the report of the committee on resolutions, Chairman Boutwell called on Dr. L. W. Habercom, of Washington, to address the convention. Dr. Habercom was received with much applause. He charged that the president had "done that which he had himself solemnly declared to be a great crime and now attempts to shift the responsibility upon Divine Providence." Dr. Habercom concluded with a declaration for Bryan. Report of Resolutions Committee. Col. Charles R. Codman, of Massachusetts, read the report of the committee on resolutions, which took the form of an address to the American people. Col. Codman said that of the 25 members of the committee on resolutions, one did not vote in 1896; seven voted for Palmer and Buckner; seven voted for Bryan, and ten for McKinley. The 25 were unanimous in submitting a report to the convention. Adylac Supporting of Bryan The resolutions advise the people to withhold their support from McKinley and to give direct support to Mr. Bryan, as the most effective means of checking imperialism. The reading of Bryan's name called forth a great round of applause, the delegates standing in a body and giving three cheers for the democratic candidate. Recommendations Following the opening statement the resolutions make the following recommendations: "First. That without regard to their views on minor questions of domestic policy, they withhold their votes from Mr. McKinley, in order to stamp with their disapproval what the has done. Second, that we should for those candidates for congress, in their respective districts, who will oppose the policy of imperialism. Third. While we welcome any other number of opposing the rejection of Mr. McKinley, we advise direct support of Mr. Bryan as the most effective means of crushing imperialism. "We are convinced of Mr. Bryan's sincere desire to secure to the Filipinos their independence. His position and the declarations contained in the platform of his party on the vital issue of the campaign meet our unqualified approval. We recommend that the executive committee of the American Anti-Imperialist league and its allied leagues continue and extend their organizations, preserving the independence of the movement, and that we should place a special part in the pending political campaign." "Until now the policy which has turned the Filipinos from warm friends to bitter enemies, which has slaughtered thousands and has made their country have been the policy of the president. After the next election it becomes the policy of every man who votes to reelect him and who thus becomes, with him, responsible for every drop of blood. Mr. Moffield Story of Massachusetts, said he cordially joined in the statement of principles contained in the resolutions, but stated that he reserved the right to support a third candidate if one were nominated who satisfied him better than Mr. Bryan. Nationalists Oppose Resolutions. Thomas M. Osborne, of New York, leader of the "nationalists," or third ticket party, was recognized to speak on the resolutions. Mr. Osborne said there were many who could support neither McKinley nor Bryan, not believing it right to remedy one wrong by substituting another. "We cannot trust the democratic party as it stands to-day." (Cries of "Bosh"—"How much did Mark Hanna pay you to come here?") Mr. Osborne moved an amendment striking out that portion of the resolutions which advised support of Bryan. Jacob Ingenthron, of Chicago, made the point of order that Mr. Osborne was not a delegate to the congress, but Sigmund Zeisler, who was temporarily presiding, ruled against him. Col. Codman spoke against Mr. Osborne's motion. He thought the crisis in which the country stands needs immediate attention. "As one member of this congress," he said, "I do not hesitate to support Mr. Bryan." Rev. B. W. Sample, of Minneapolis, said that although born and bred a republican and long prejudiced against the democratic party, he thought it the duty of all anti-imperialists this year to support Bryan and Stevenson. Edgar A. Bancroft, of Chicago, said President McKinley could in no way be defended except by the election of Bryan. John Jay Chapman, of New York, one of the "independents," opposed the indorsement of Bryan. George G. Mercer, of Philadelphia, said a third ticket was needed by some men who magnified the danger of free silver, "but," he added, "let them not come here and attempt to force a third ticket upon us." MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Paul Kersch, of Rock Island, Ill., advised support of Bryan as the only direct means of striking at the root of imperialism. Judge Decker, of Colorado, opposed the amendment, strongly advocating support of Bryan. Oswald Williard, of New York, spoke against the specific indorsement of Bryan. Franklin Pierce, of New York, spoke against the amendment, claiming that it would be unjust to ignore the name of Bryan in the resolutions, after Bryan had made "such a magnificent arraignment of imperialism in his speech of acceptance." Edward Osgood Brown, of Chicago, a member of the resolutions committee, spoke vigorously in favor of the platform as reported. The convention then adjourned until two o'clock, when the debate was continued. THE BUSY MAN'S CORNER. SPORTING AND OTHERWISE Football practice begin for fall season by coach. Talk in baseball circles of adopting three balls and three strikes next year. balls and three strikes next year. Chicago art institute will be open to all wearers of G. A. R. buttons during the reunion. FINANCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL: London company has plan to make fuel mix. Hawaii state museum shows upward of £25,000,000 in gold has gone to Europe during the week. Illinois Central will improve its ocean carrying service between New Orleans and Boston. E. Seymour Bell writes British merchants from Chicago that they must put traveling men on the road to retain their rich American trade. CHINA: Twenty Chinese left Chicago to join emploi in army in China. Western foreign office is greatly astounded at rapid advance of allies on Peking. Expert on oriental affairs declares all dispatches from Peking are forged. CRIME AND CASUALTY: Frank Culin, a waiter, dropped dead at Dearborn. Fred Schlake, a farmer near Pickerton, Neb., found dead in road with two bullet holes in his head. Natural gas explosion caused destruction of house of Daniel Levy at Chicago, and five Steameris Merwin, Resolute and Dollar wrecked on beach at Cape Nome during storm of August 2 and 3 and 15 persons drowned. FROM OTHER LANDS France celebrated feast of the Assumption Belief in Germany that Chancellor von Hohenbole is soon to resign. Bultan of Turkey has ordered new telegraph line from India to Constantinople. Fifteen Italian detectives are coming to shadow movements of anarchists in the United States. Count Boni de Castellane is financially embarrassed, and the Chateau de Marais is to be sold at auction. Dublin Blaren Iveagh will build artisan dwellings costing over £60,000 in congested tenement district. POLITICAL President McKinley will do no active campaigning. Artisan dwellings angered by platform of state democratic convention. Democrats of the Fifth Kansas district nominated H. D. Vincent for congress. W. J. Bryan left Chicago for Lincoln, Neb., and expects to return and be the mayor of Tennessee at age 80. Judge D. L. Sundgrass, chief justice of Tennessee supreme court, has withdrawn from state for United States senator. Anti-Goose democrats in Kentucky are said to have decided to support John W. said, the republican candidate for governor. Once Secretary to Seward New York, Aug. 17.—B. A. F. Mamroev, at one time private secretary to William H. Seward, died suddenly at his home in this city, aged 49. THE MARKETS **Grain, Provisions, Ete.** Chicago, Aug. 16 WHEAT—Lower, September sold early at 74%/22%c, split, fell to 74%/5c and closed around 74%/c OIL—Firm and higher. September sold at 29%c OATS—Steader. September ranged at 21%/22%c RHE—Toilet to firm, demand fair. No. 2 with 50%/5c, No. 3 about 49%/4c, September. 50%/5c BARLEY—In good demand, firm and offering small. Screenings quotable at 30c. Feed and export, 36%/26c. Low malting 37, 69c, and to货 good, 49%/43c, and choice, 44%/43c. MES8 PORK—Inquiry fair and offering moderate. Prices ranged lower. Quotations ranged at $11.56/11.40 for regular, with old at 20% and good old at 50%/5c; discount at 11.36%c for September, and $11.32%c for October. LARD—Demand fair and offerings moderate. Prices steady at $6.66/6.67c for cash; discount at 11.36%c for September, and $6.73%c for October. POTATOES--Strong and higher. Early Ohios, per but, 2949c. Homemrown, 195c backs, 5959c. EGOS--Firmness continues. Loss off, Ohios, per but, 125c; quotably, 125c; at mark, 9791c; city recalled, new cases included, quotably, 1259c. BUTTER--Quotably steady. Creameries, extra, 30c per pound; firsts, 189c; seconds, 1699c; dairies, 1499c7. LIVE POULTRY--Market easier for spring chickens. Others unchanged. Tur- nine, 30c per pound; firsts, 176c, 7c per pound, greece, 16,99c 50 per dog. Live Stock HOG8—Choice to fancy strong-weight, $1.59\$6.19; rough to good heavy packing, $4.90\$6.19; plain to choice heavy mixed, $5.00 $6.25; assorted light mixed, $3.25\$6.19; common fat heavy light mixed, $1.09\$6.32; thin to common fat heavy light. CATTLE—Prize beets, $3.25\$6.70; choice to fat steers, $3.59\$6.70; fair medium shipping and beef steers, $3.09\$6.39; plain grains, $4.70\$6.45; common to rough, $4.90\$6.45; fair to good beef steers, $4.09\$6.45; good stockers, $7.59\$6.85; bulls, poor to fancy, $7.25\$4.50; fed Texas steers, fair to fancy, $4.25\$6.00; light Texas cows, bulls and grass steers, $4.09\$4.15; western range steers, $4.09\$5.10; fed western steers, $4.90\$5.70. South Omaha, Aug. 18. CATTLE—Market steers, $4.90\$6.75; western steers, $1.90\$4.75; Texas steers, $7.09\$4.30; cows and heifers, $2.09\$4.55; canners, $1.75\$2.55; stockers and feeders, stronger, $7.09\$4.75; calves, $2.09\$4.55; bulk of sales, $4.90\$5.70. HOG8—Market steed to strong Heavy, $4.90\$6.00; mixed, $4.90\$6.00; Light, $4.90\$5.12; plugs, $4.90\$4.90; bulk of sales, $4.90\$5.00. HEEP—Market steed, Yearlings, $4.90\$4.46; wethers, $7.25\$4.45; stockers, $2.25\$2.75; lamb, stronger, $7.59\$5.50. Published every Saturday by the ADVANCE PUBLISHING COOPANY Minneapolis, - - - - - Minnesota. Entered at the Post Office, at Minne- apolis, Minn., as second-class matter. Subscription Rates: One Year $1.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Months .55 Subscription Always Payable in Ad- Special rates if ordered by the dozen. The office will reach the office by Wednesday evening. Advertising Rates. Local Reading Notices, 10c per line, Relation Insignia, not over five lines), free Want & To Let advertisements, 8 cents per line for each insertion. Display, 40 cents per inch each insertion. Admission rates will be given for space by the year. Editorial Announcements. 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Hanson Chief Justice ..... C. M. Start Associate Justice ..... L. W. Collins Railroad Commissioner, O. S. Miller and I. B. Mills (four years) and C. P. Stanley (two years). OF GENERAL INTEREST. In the western part of British Columbia is a novel railway, two miles in length. The rails are made of trees, from which the bark has been stripped, and these are bolted together. Upon them runs a car with grooved wheels ten inches wide. Congressman Julius Kahn, of California, is the only member of the national legislature who was ever a professional actor. He played at different times with Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson, Tommaso Salvini, W. J. Florence and Clara Morris. Ceylon is the home of the largest spider in the world. This web-spinning monster lives in the most mountainous districts of that rugged island, and places his net, measuring from 5 feet to 10 feet in diameter, across the chasms and fissures in rocks. The deaths in 1898 in Havana numbered 21,252 among a population estimated at 250,000. The rate of mortality was 85 a thousand. In the first month of American occupation, January, 1899, this was reduced to 67 and by December, 1899, to 27 a thousand. The decrease continued until in April, 1900, it was less than 22.4 a thousand. It is announced that the Illinois Central railroad will proceed at an early date to fence its entire right of way from McComb City, Miss., to New Orleans. The fence will consist of six spans of wire and cedar posts. The company, it is understood, has been troubled by live stock and its losses have been heavy. The fence will be built with a view of abating these casualties. Paris leads the world in municipal cleanliness quite as much as she leans the fashion. Large sums are spent every year to maintain this reputation. The Maoris of New Zealand attach the highest value to the greenstone. They are sending a very handsome one as a present to Lord Roberts in token of admiration for his prowess. Paris, without doubt, is the best paved city in the world. Although wood paving is made use of, the streets are still largely paved with stone. The stone paving covers 7,223,840 square yards. Senator Morgan, of Alabama, is making a fad of gardening and is spending much of his vacation in the cultivation of some exceptionally fine pansies. The average daily number of vehicles in Paris is 50,000, and consists of 1,600 omnibuses and tramcars, 15,000 cabs, 14,000 private carriages, 16,000 business carts, etc. A tramp stole two gallons of cream and two gallons of milk from a Brownfield (Me.) farmer, the other night, and left a polite note thanking the owner for leaving the cream and milk where the tramp found it. British noblemen are the only ones in Europe who ever wear coronets on their heads, and the sole occasion when they do so is at the coronation of the sovereign. There are five princes actively engaged in the present South African war, namely: Prince Christian Victor, Princes Adolphus, Alexander and Francis of Teck, and Count Gleichen. A project recently set on foot in Hungary to supply electric power in small quantities to home workshops in the vicinity of Budapest has received the sanction of the Hungarian diet. ANTI-ICE TRUST ANNOUNCEMENT -During the performance Mr. Bryan will endeavor to walk the tight-rope from Lincoln, Neb., to Washington, D. C., carrying sixteen times his own weight in his celebrated iron jaws and balancing the Anti-Imperialist Fancy with the Anti(Ice)-Trust Fact!-Chicago Times-Herald. SPANISH WAR LOAN. Administration's Success in Getting Two Hundred Million Dollars. How Secretary Gage Handled the Popular Loan - Vast Sum With-drawn from Circulation Without Injury to Business. The war with Spain served to demonstrate something more than the military and naval strength of the United States. It brought to light the vast resources in wealth of this country. In a general way it had been understood that the United States was a nation of great wealth, perhaps richer than any other country. But it needed the necessities of war to give an exhibition of our real financial strength. While it was recognized in the spring of 1898 that the Dingley Tariff, under normal conditions, would produce ample revenues for the ordinary requirements of the government, it was apparent that means must be taken at once to provide for the heavy war expenditures. On April 25, 1898, two days after the declaration of war, a bill to provide additional revenues was introduced in the house of representatives. It passed that body April 29 and the senate on June 4. The report of the conference committee was agreed to in the house June 9 and the senate June 10. The bill became a law June 13, 1898, when it received the signature of the president. The necessities of the hour required that the treasury should be supplied immediately with funds. The task was to raise a large sum, available for immediate use, in such a manner as to avoid injury to the rapidly reviving business of the country. The act recognized a true prin- FAMOUS AERIAL ARTIST TO A ANNOUNCEMENT—During the perfor the tight-rope from Lincoln, Neb., to Wash own weight in his celebrated iron jaws and the Anti(Ice)-Trust Fact!—Chicago Times eiple in public finance by making provision to borrow at once a sum sufficient to provide for war expenses, while at the same time additional taxes were levied in order that the loan might be supported by an increase in revenue. The act authorized the secretary of the treasury to borrow $400,000,000, or as much thereof as might be necessary, to defray the expenses of the war. Under this authority it was decided to borrow $200,000,000. The success which attended the floating of this loan is a memorable one. It was a popular loan in every sense of the word. The act itself directed that "the bonds authorized by this section shall be first offered at par as a popular loan under such regulations, prescribed by the secretary of the treasury, as will give opportunity to the citizens of the United States to participate in subscriptions to the loan, and in allotting said bonds the several subscriptions for the individuals shall be first accepted, and the subscriptions for the lowest amounts shall be first allotted." The secretary of the treasury utilized every agency at his command to comply with this direction of congress. All state and national banks were requested to cooperate with the department; the express companies tendered their services free of cost in the handling of subscriptions; the postmaster general directed that all money order post offices be charged with the duty of receiving the orders of subscribers, and all the newspapers of the United States were invited to disseminate information concerning the loan. All these great agencies combined to place before the people the fullest information that could be given. For a period of 31 days subscriptions were received. At the end of that time it was found that the total of subscriptions aggregated only a little under $1,400,000,000, or almost seven times the amount of bonds offered to the public. This was a remarkable demonstration in favor of the public credit. It showed to other nations the tremendous resources which the people of the United States were able to command almost at a moment's notice. The success of the war loan had an effect, both at home and abroad, scarcely less important than were the naval victories at Manila and Santiago. Doubtless the purpose of the people thus expressed to give abundant support to the war was one of the factors which brought about its speedy termination. The withdrawal of so large a sum as $200,000,000 from active employment in commerce and industry, without deranging any of the vast business interests of the country, was a feat successfully accomplished. By the end of the calendar year 1898 almost every dollar of this great sum had been paid into the treasury. Yet under the plan adopted by the secretary of the treasury such payment was made without occasioning the slightest injury to business. In fact, the entire management of the war finance was conducted with such skill that not for a moment was there any interruption to the returning tide of prosperity. Industrial and commercial expansion continued as if in fact there had been no war, and at its close the business of the country was greater in volume than at the beginning, and the national credit, both at home and abroad, had been raised to the highest point in our history. It may be said with truth that this increased faith in the public credit laid the foundation for the achievement of that currency reform which was accomplished by the act of March 14, 1900, fixing the standard of value and providing for the refunding of the national debt at the lowest rate of interest on public securities ever effected in this or any other country. PRODUCTS OF OUR ISLANDS. We May Soon Be Independent of the World for Everything We May Need. The people of the United States pay over $350,000,000 annually, or practically a million dollars in each day of the year, for tropical products, all of which can be produced and most of which are now produced in some degree, in the islands under consideration. Some of these are for use in manufacturing and some as food-stuffs. These include raw silk, tea and rice, and the small proportion of our sugar importations which is manufactured from beets. Sugar, coffee, india rubber, fibers, tropical fruits and nuts, cocon, tobacco, or the finer grades of spices, gums, indigo, dyewoods, and cabinet woods form the important features of these imports, and all of them are articles for which the United States is more or less dependent upon other parts of the world. All of these articles are now produced, to a greater or less extent, in the islands in question. Sugar is TEMPT A REMARKABLE FEAT. formance Mr. Bryan will endeavor to walk ington, D. C., carrying sixteen times his balancing the Anti-Imperialist Fancy with -Herald. grown in Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines. Coffee, of which our importations are growing constantly and rapidly, amounting to about $80,000,000 annually, is successfully grown in all of the islands in question, end at one time was a very important crop in Cuba as well as at present in Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines. Fiber, of which the importations in the last fiscal year amounted to $20,000,000 in value, can be grown in all of the islands, the Philippines already supplying Manila hemp, which alone will amount to about $80,000,000 in value. While two or three of the larger items of our tropical and subtropical imports—rubber, silk and tea—are not produced in any considerable quantities in these islands at present, experiments which have been made there, especially in tea and silk, indicate at least that their production may prove entirely practicable with further experiment. Even without these items the list of importations of tropical products suggests that fully $200,000,000 which the United States has been heretofore expending outside her own territory can soon be distributed in these islands in exchange for their supplies, whose production will doubtless be stimulated by the introduction of American capital and American methods. Better Prices for Farmers. The following farm products were higher in price on July 1, 1900, than on the McKinley prosperity stays with the farmer. Net Retroactive. The Kentucky democrats have decided to amend the Goebel law and eliminate some of the glaring iniquities of the measure. They will not go so far as to make restitution of the offices the nefarious law enabled them to steal. Thick-Skinned. The so-called anti-imperialists have decided to hitch onto the democratic donkey. The poor animal is always compelled to furnish the motive power for the slanderers of the country. A Subject Avoided. Those democratic editors who affect to believe that the protective tariff is the parent of trusts never attempt to explain the fact that the trust originated in free trade England. They Are Independent. Hon. Claude Duval is running for congress on the democratic ticket in one of the Kansas distriutes. It is not clear he will be able to hold up the reefer. And the Full Stomach The democratic orator will be deprived of one advantage he enjoyed in 1896. This year he will have to argue with the man with the full dinner pail Two of a Kind. In the dowager empress of China the country has a very fair picture of Mary Ellen Leaseism at its zenith. SCHOOL AND CHURCH. Harvard granted degrees in course to 928 persons recently. Yale, during the past year, has received pledges of gifts of $1,109,000 toward the bicentenary fund, and $200,000 in addition. It is said in Boston that Prof. Charles Eliot Norton has declared his intention of leaving to Harvard, at his death, his large library, valuable archaeological collection and priceless collection of manuscripts. Rev. Dr. Mandell Creighton, bishop of London, has a correspondence consisting of about 60 letters a day, which he reads and answers personally. He spends his holidays in the small villages of Italy to get away from the crowds. Romania would appear to be the most illiterate country in Europe. The last census shows that in a population of nearly 6,000,000, nearly 4,000,000 can neither read nor write, and that only a little over 1,000,000 have any education at all. Presbyterianism is growing in London, England. In 1860 it had only 24 congregations; in 1898 96, nearly four times as many. Forty years ago the membership was 7,087; two years ago, 22,585. Its income in 1860 was $177,420; in 1898, $352,020. Last year it maintained a steady increase. The London Christian World says that Gen. Cronje was much pressured on the voyage to St. Helene. He and his wife would sit side by side for hours without speaking, holding each other's hands and occasionally reading the Bible. To cheer them up, a graphophone was brought into use. After playing a march, Sankey's hymn, "The Ninety and Nine," was given. Mrs. Cronje burst into tears, but the wife of another Boer officer sang the hymn through to the accompaniment of the graphophone. Cronje was so interested in the performance that the graphophone was presented to him, and with it he amuses himself in St. Helena. A MOUNTAINEER'S RELIGION. He Went to Church and Suddenly Discovered That He Was an "Episcopal." Last summer Rt. Rev. Thomas U. Dudley, Episcopal bishop of Kentucky, thought he would make a journey through the mountains of eastern Kentucky and look up the scattered members of his flock and endeavor to get a foothold for his church among the mountainers, says the New York Post. But as he journeyed from settlement to settlement without meeting a man who had ever even heard of the Episcopal church he grew somewhat discouraged. At last he came to a village where, upon inquiry, he was told that there was "an Episcopal" in the neighborhood, and so the good bishop proceeded to look him up. After introducing himself and disclosing the object of his visit, Bishop Dudley asked the mountaineer if it were a fact that he was an Episcopalian. "Oh, yes," replied he. "I'm an Episcopal." "Where were you confirmed?" enquired the bishop. The poor man had never even heard the word. "Where, then, were you baptized?" "I know all about that," replied he, "though precious few fools baptized in these parts, but I don't know whether I was ever baptized or not." "Then why? do you call yourself an Episcopian?" continued the bishop. "Well, nw, stranger, I'll tell ye," said he. "Some five or six years ago I was summoned down to Louisville as a witness in one of these 'moonshine' cases, you know. Well, we was kep over Sunday, and after breakfast, as I knew nobody thar and nobody knew me, I tuk a walk down the street, from my lodgin's, and directly I saw everybody goin' into a great big fine church, and sez I to myself, I'll go too. So I went in and sat down, and in a little while the bell it stopped a jingling; thar was some kind of big music rolled around, and then it stopped, too, and a feller in a long white gown he got up at the other end of the room from me and said something or other I couldn't hear, and then every man, woman and child in that room got down on their knees and sez they: 'Oh, Lord, we've dun the things we ortn't to ha' dun, and we ain't dun the things we orter to ha' dun,' and sez I myself, that's me. I'm one of them very kind of fellers, and when we all cum out I asked a feller what kind of a church that thar wuz, and sed he: 'It's an Episcopal church,' and so, stranger, I've called myself an Episcopal ever since that trip to Louisville." Saved by a Pair of Spectacles. A writer in a contemporary describes the escape from injury of a workman engaged in a foundry in this city. While preparing for a casting he was shot on the leg by a splash of the liquid metal. It went clean through his trousers and through the wall of the strong leather spectacle case, which he carried in his trouser pocket. But the broad nose bridge of the spectacle frame checked it in its progress. The intruding metal, yet, unhardened, dashed against this part of the frame, nearly enveloping it, and attaching itself with as much neatness and stability as if it were the handwork of a skilled craftsmans. Had the spectacles not been in his pocket the molten metal would assuredly have penetrated their owner's thigh—Westminster Budget. Filipino Cannon. Three curious water pipe cannon, which were actually used by the Filipinos against the Americans in the late campaign, have just been lent to the museum of the Royal United Service institution. How primitive they really are may be judged from the fact that the exterior surfaces are bound with hemp and galvanized wire and telegraph wire.—London Chronicle. Levant of Two Exile "Neither do I. But if she doesn't recite she'll sing." - Stray Stories. Balance of Power The balance of power, children, is simply the agency through which power is unbalanced. -Puck. SOCIETY DIRECTORY Mars Lodge, No. 2202. Meets second and fourth Wednesdays in each month at Odd Fellows' Hall, 522 Wabasha street. T. R. HICKMANM, P. 4, 522 AU. Anthony. F. D. PARKER, N. G. 356 Edmund St. Household of Ruth, P. 533 G. U. of G. F. Meets first and third Monday in each month for business second Monday for each month, at Odd Fellows' Hall, 522 Wabasha. MRS. SARAH C. KIRTLEY, M.N.G. A JACKSON, W. R. K. 374 mount place. MOST WORSHIPFUL GRAND LODGE OF INNESNOVA, A. F, and A. M. J. WM. R. MORISI, Grand Secretary. 81 Guaranty Loan Bldg. Minneapolis. Meets the first and third Mondays of each month. W. J. Gardner, Pres. J. S. Haras, Sec. C. Davis, Treas. F. and A. M. Meets the first Monday in each month at Masonic Hall, southwest corner Fifth and Eighth. Meets the Masons in good standing always welcome. S. H. HADLEY, W. M. W. A. HILYARD, Sec. 124 Atwater. Minnesota Lodge No. 2, A. F. and A. M. Meets on the first and third Tuesday in each month at Masonic Hall, southwest corner Mason in good standing always welcome. H. R. HOWARD, W. M. J. S. STRONG, Sec. 127 and Robert at, WM. STEVENS, No. 3, A. F. & A. M. Meets second and fourth Monday in each month at Masonic Hall, southwest corner Fifth and Robert streets. Master Mason in good standing always welcome. WM. JOHNSON, W. M. D. E. BEASLEAU, D. E. Ryan Hotel. Perfect Ashler Lodge, No. 4, A. F. Meets the second and fourth Tuesday in each month at Masonic Hall, southwest corner Fifth and Robert streets. Master Mason in good standing always welcome. H. J. HERMERWOOD, Sec. 161 Carroll. Bethel Chapter, No. 28, R. A. M. Meets the first and third Thursday in each month at Masonic Hall, southwest corner Fifth and Robert streets. Royal Arch Mason in good standing always welcome. DANIEL ROY, H. P. W. T. GASSAWY, Sec. State Capitol. MINNEAPOLIS. G. U. O. O. O. F. St. Anthony Lodge, No. 2877. Meets the first and third Wednesday in each month for the transaction of business, 1st avenue in Washington A. H. MYRICK, N. G. JAMES A. SCOTT, P. S. P. O. Box 33. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. Nat. Turner Lodge, No. 2, K. of P. Meets the second and fourth Thursdays in ing welcome. At Labor Temple, Fourth and Eighth avenue south. RALPH WATSON, K. R. and S. Pride of Minnesota Lodge, No. 1, K. Meets the first and third Thursdays in each month. All brothers in good standing welcome. At Plummer Post Hall, First avenue north Washington. JAMES ROBERTS, C. C. W. C. JEFFREY, K. R. and S. J. K. JEFFREY Lodge. Meets the first and second month at Windom Block, Second avenue South and Washington. Masons in good standing always welcome. W. LILLARD, W. M. JASPER GIBBS, Sec. Guaranty Loan Heaven. Astoria Lodge, No. 7, A. F. and A. M. Meets the first and second month in each month at Windom Block, Second avenue South and Washington. Masons in good standing. J. A. SCOTT, W. M. A. B. LEE, 270 Aldrich avenue South. Officers and Standing Committees of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M. of Minnesota and jurisdiction: Grand Master-John L. Neal, Minneapolis St. Paul Grand Junior Warden—J. C. Garner, St. Paul. Grand Treasurer—Daniel Roy, St. Paul. Grand Secretary—William R. Morrin, Minneapolis. Grand Lecturer—G. W. Day (7), Minneapolis. Grand Deputy Secretary—G. D. Howard (4), St. Paul. Grand Chaplain—Isaac Crawford (6), Minneapolis. Grand Senior Deacon—John Martin (1), St. Paul. Grand Junior Deacon—R. De Leo (7), Minneapolis. Grand Senior Steward—J. H. Dillingham (5), St. Paul. Grand Junior Steward—Wm. Stevens (3), St. Paul. Grand Tyler—T. Bush (3), St. Paul. Grand Marshall—C. H. McDonald (5), Duluth. Grand Pursuitant—G. W. Duckett (4), St. Paul. Grand Sword-Bearer—J. Adams (1), St. Paul. Grand Standard-Bearer—G. J. Charles-tusk, St. Paul. Grand Register—J. G. Sterett (6), Minneapolis. Deputy Deputy Grand Master—First District—James Woodford (1), St. Paul. District Deputy Grand Master—Second District—James Woodford (1), Minneapolis. District Deputy Grand Master—Th. district—J. K. Polk (5), Duluth. ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH. Rev. J. C. Anderson, Pastor. Fuller and Jay streets. Sunday service 12:00 p.m. Wednesday prayer meeting 8:00 p.m. ST. PETER CLAYER'S. Father Printon. Cor. Farmers' School avenges. Sunday services: Mass, 8:00 a.m. High mass, 10:30 a.m. Evening service at 7 o'clock. PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev. D. S. Orsay, Pastor. Cor. 13th and Cedar. Sunday services: Preaching at 11:30 a.m. and 7:45 p.m. Sunday School at 12:30 mass. Sunday evening general prayer meeting. ST. PHILIPP EPISCOPAL MISSION. 463 Rice street, bet. Aurora and Univer- sity. Sunday services: Morning prayer, Lit- tany and Sermon, 11:00 a.m.; Sunday Sermon, 11:00 a.m.; Evensong and Sermon, 8:00 p.m.; Wednesday Evening Prayer and Lecture, 8:00 p.m.; Friday, Choir Rehearsal and mass, 8:00 p.m. All are cordially invited. Sesta free. MINNEAPOLIS. Sunday services: Preaching, 11:20 a.m. ; Sunday School, 3:00 p.m. ; evening services, 8:00 p.m. ; General prayer meet, 8:00 p.m. ; Main Home Circle, Tuesday evening at different residences. Parsonage, 226 NETHERNDALE BAPTIST CHURCH. BETHELDA BAPTIST CHURCH. Between Eleventh and Twelfth avenues. Sunday services: Preaching, 11:20 a.m. ; Sunday School, 3:00 p.m. ; evening services, 8:00 p.m. ; Wednesday evening general prayer meet, 8:00 p.m. ; Parsonage, 120 Eighth street South. ST. THOMAS' MISSION. Rev. John J. Faude, in Charge. 151 Sixth avenue South. Sunday, 4:00 p.m. ; Sunday School, 3:00 p.m. ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH. Rev. J. W. King, Pastor. Between Eleventh and Twelfth avenue, near Exposition Bldg. Sunday services: Preaching at 11:20 a.m. ; evening services, 8:00 p.m. ; General prayer meet, 8:00 p.m. ; Thursday evening. Weekly meetings of the Debating Club. NOTICE.—Changes and corrections will be made upon notify the office. If we do not know of any society in the above directory, it is cannot we do not know of it or have name of any lodge, place and time of name of officers and it will be insured. --- THE ADVANCE CAFE 214 WASHINGTON AV. SOUTH. Restaurant and Lunch Counter RICHARD MANN, Proprietor. 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TEL 2701-J-3. NEXT TO TERRA'S Our Motto: First-class Work and Moderate Prices. Telephone 2709-J-6. S. P. EGGAN, PHOTOGRAPHER. Crayon, Pastel and Water Colors a Specialty. 261-329 Cedar Avenue, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA. RHEUMATISM Cured for 280 Crayons with Bord's Rheumatite Crayons. Bord's Rheumatite Misc. Mc. Bord's Rheumatite. Wk. & boards. $1.60. --- THE LOVE OF GOD. I sought a measure for the love of God: The mothering kindness of the April sod; The wide-armed, tender, all-embracing sky; Cheek-down upon the hills; the great rock high; The little shadow-loving violet; Soft-brooding night, that bids men's hearts forget; The rain, the slender-fingered, gentle rain; earth's earthy the sterile brow. But in vain Sought I to gauge the love divine. All space, All worlds, all creatures borrow of its grace. The earth is fruitful, because God's above; Heaven but a cup, o'erbrimming with His love; The rock that shades the trustful violet, By God's own hand was there to sunward Night's balm is but a drop of Heaven's compa- assion. Dedicated to soothe us after nature' fashion; And not a heat-parched flow'r would cease from pain. Were not God's hand more healing than God? O'Gell! the measure of Thy heart is Thine. There is no likeness for the love divine. We call it heaven-high, and ocean-deep. But o'er these shallows infinitely sweep The tides of human plummet can explore, Depth upon depth, unsounded evermore. -James Buckham, in Chicago Advance. One of the City's Own THERE were ructions in the counting-house of Tatterson & Dewhurst. One or two junior clerks had received a more or less well-deserved "wigging" and there was a general feeding of worse to follow. At last a small office boy entered the clerk's office and said in a shrill voice: "Mr. Redbolt is to go to the governor at once." There was a mischievous grin on the young gentleman's face, as if he knew what was coming, and most of the others, delighted at their own escape, chuckled, like many people do when some one else is in trouble. Joe Redbolt turned just a shade paler when his name was called out, as if he, too, anticipated serious trouble, but he set his lips and stiffened his back, like a man who is going to make the best of a bad job. "Good-by, Reddie, dear!" said somebody, with an unpleasant sneer. "the governor gives you a rise, don't forget to siand drinks" "Reddie looks worried!" murmured the cashier. "Perhaps she has refused him after all" remarked another. A moment later he was in the private office. Young Mr. Dewhurst, who had managed the business since the death of his father, gave him a furtive look as he entered, and then turned hurriedly to a bundle of correspondence by his side and selected a letter with an air of malicious satisfaction. The two men formed an odd contrast. They were of about the same age—28 or perhaps 30—but it required no great insight to perceive the difference in their characters. Redbelt was tall, straight-built and frank-looking; his principal was small, insignificant and obviously one of nature's sneaks. One could imagine Redbelt being foolish, but never cowardly; one could imagine Mr. Dewhurst being sly, but never generous. The interview was unusual; there seemed to be something in the background about which neither man spoke. Mr. Dewhurst was clearly master of the situation, and resolved to use his power: his managing clerk looked self-reliant, but perfectly respectful and polite. The ball was opened by Mr. Dewhurst unfolding a cantankerous complaint from an unimportant customer. it was the merest trifle, and quite unworthy of the occasion. Nevertheless, Joe Redbott was by no means surprised at the tone adopted. For some time past the smallest opportunities had been seized for fault-finding, and he knew by instinct that the climax had been reached. "How do you account for this blunder?" said Mr. Dewhurst suspiciously. But Mr. Dewhurst was not in a reasonable humor. "It appears to me, then, that you are not in any way to blame, Mr. Redbolt?" he said cynically. "I think not." "You never make a mistake?" "Not very often." "Who is to blame, then?" There was a moment's silence, and the two men looked into one another's eyes. "You are, sir," said Redbolt, respectfully. "I acted under your instructions." This appeared to give the unworthy little tyrant his opportunity. "You are more than half impertinent!" he said roughly. "I give you my word I didn't intend to be so," said Redbolt, with perfect good temper. "Perhaps not, but I'm tired of it. You forget your proper position, and have crossed my will in several ways." Mr. Redbolt colored rather painfully, and his principal continued, with a smile of spiteful triumph: "You understand what I allude to?" The clerk bowed slightly. "Then I think you had better look about for another situation." "Shall we calculate the month from last Monday?" inquired Joe Redbolt, in a perfectly even, matter-of-fact voice. "Eh, yes," said Mr. Dewhurst. "But I won't ask you to continue your work here." With that he pushed across the table a little pile of coins, which had been counted out already, clearly showing that he intended from the first to make use of the opportunity. For the first time Joe Redbolt looked angry. It was adding insult to injury to send him awry adrift at a moment's notice, as if he had disgraced himself. It was the more outrageous because he was a distant connection of the Dewhursts by blood. The two young men had been for a short time at school together. They had entered the firm together, and Redbolt had worked his way up by sheer ability, under old Mr. Dewhurst's eye, to a responsible position. Naturally, they knew the same people, and to some extent visited the same houses, and i. was in this way that Dewhurst's inherent jealousy had ripened into positive rancor—for that there was a member of the fair sex at the bottom of it is almost obvious. The innocent cause of the trouble, little dreaming of the mischief she was creating, had thoroughly enjoyed the rivalry of the two men, as every daughter of Eve is bound to do, and she had not made it quite clear which of them was to be favored, which is certainly a woman's privilege. But Joe Redbolt was generally believed to be the lucky man, and Dewhurst had rented his unmanly spite in a thousand annoyances in the office. However, in love, as in war, it is the unexpected that often happens. Joe Redbolt proposed, and was refused point blank. Now most men, when they see a dangerous rival put out of court, bury their animosity and even become generous. But this was not the case with Fred Dewhurst, retety annoyances developed rapidly into daily insults, until the morning, as we have seen, he had found an excuse to cut his former school fellow adrift. II. Joe Redbelt picked up the pile of coins, counted them deliberately and put them in his pocket. "Now, Fred Dewhurst," he said huskily, "we are no longer master and man, so that I can say what I think." Dewhurst looked rather alarmed, and drew a small silver bell nearer to his side. "Oh, don't be frightened!" said Joe, with a smile of astonishment. "I'm not going to thrash you! It wouldn't be fair to nit a man your size!" Mr. Dewhurst tried to sneer, but only looked nightly relieved. "I want to tell you you're the meanest ced I've met, and if that poor girl marries you I'm sorry for her!" "In fact, you're so sorry," said Dewhurst, "that you'd even marry her yourself! Capital! Anu, now you've said enough, I'll wish you good-morning." With a mighty effort of self-restraint Joe pulled lilm. elf together, and, resisting the impulse to knock him down, swung out of the room. He had lost everything—the girl he loved and the means of earning his living. He was alone in the world, with no prospect but that of commencing life again in some counting house, and—then suddenly he remembered. Only two nights before he had attended drill at the headquarters of his volunteer corps. The men had been asked which of them wished to join the C. I. V. for the front. He thought of the glow that had burnt through his veins, how he had longed to offer himself, and had only been prevented by his feeling of obligation to his old friend's business. Now he was free! That settled it. Old England was in need of help from men such as he. He was as sound as a bell in wind and limb; he had done his turn at volunteering and could shoot more than a little. Within half an hour his name was entered as one of those who were ready for service at the front, and he was ordered to go before the doctor. That gentleman laughed at him. "If we get 1,400 men as fit as you are," he said, "we shall do well!" Having successfully passed all the tests, and been duly enrolled as one of the city of London imperial volunteer corps, he felt slightly easier in his mind. At last the final moment came. He had attended the service at St. Paul and sung the national anthem until he was hoarse. He had been slapped on the back by hundreds of warm-hearted but heavy-burdened citizens. He had even fought his way successfully through a mob of enthusiastic patriots all the way from Bunhill Row to Nine Elms, where he was one of the first to arrive. There stood the train waiting to take them to Southampton. There, too, stood the long-suffering band, and every minute groups of breathless, excited men in khaki, who had also fought their way through the crowd, rushed onto the platform. Of course it was all over. There was nothing to be done but get into the train and say good-by to old London for months—perhaps forever. Once more a gloomy sense of loneliness came upon him. Everybody else had a chum or a relative to see him off. And then—an angel came from heaven? Not quite! But an earthly angel appeared, in the shape of a slight form in a long black cloak, who was pushing her way feverishly through the crowd, eagerly scanning the faces of the "gentlemen in khaki." Then their eyes met, and in a minute he was clasping in his arms the girl who had refused him a month before and in whose presence he had always been so shy that he had never dared to press her hand. How had it happened? There seemed no need—and certainly no time—for explanations. Why had he accepted her foolish "No" when she never meant him to? She always thought he would speak to her again. Why had he been so awkward and brusque in the way he had asked her? He had given her no chance to say "Yes." And it was only last night she had learned what had happened—from Dewhurst's own lips—and she had cried all night at the mischief she had done, and would he forgive her? And did he care for her a little bit? "Take your seats, there," roared an officer. It was not the time for mock modesty. With her arms round his neck and tear-stained cheeks pressed to his, she promised to wait for him. "God bless you!" he whispered. "And God bring you back to me!" she answered. And then, with cheers and whistles, and the band playing "God Save the Queen," and men shouting and laughing and crying, the train moved out, and the City's Own were en route for the front--Black and White. --- Doctor—"Mr. Biff, aren't you going to settle my bill?" Mr. Biff—"Why, yes, doctor; you've been eight years piling it up on me, and I feel entitled to eight years to pay it in."—Indianapolis Journal. Proud of His Own Work.—"What an gnostical thing this composer must be." "What makes you think so?" "Why, look; he has had 'Fine' printed in several places on this piece of music of his."—Philadelphia Bulletin. One of Them.—"A Chicago man has gained the power of speech by trying to commit suicide," remarked Mrs. Beechwood. "That must be one of the kill-or-cure remedies," added Mr. Beechwood. —Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. Do people ever get entirely over it? An Atchison woman of 75 recently inherited a little money, and the first person she made sure was informed of the news was an 80-year-old man who had jilted her when she was 15. —Atchison Globe. Rare. Indeed.—Art Dealer—"Here's something fine. It's 'The Battle of Waterloo,' by Van Dyke." Markley—"Is it really? I thought Van Dyke died before the battle occurred." Art Dealer—"Er—so he did. But—er—you see, this is one of his posthumous paintings."—Philadelphia Press. "I can recommend the traction cars as healthrestorers," said the lean man. "I got in one this afternoon and in a half hour's ride increased my weight considerably." "How do you account for it?" "Well, for one thing, I tendered the conductor a two-dollar bill and received a bushel of coin in exchange."—Philadelphia North American. At the Boarding-House.—The conversation had assumed a literary vein when the dressmaker entered. The drug clerk, wishing to draw her into the discussion, asked: "What do you think of 'Excelsior,' Miss Stitcher?" "Oh, my!" she said; "Excelsior is out of date long ago. Braided wire is the favorite now." As no one knew who wrote Braided Wire, the conversation went back to "Quo Vadis."—Baltimore American. AMERICAN ATTRACTIONS Comparison Between the Scenic Beauties of Switzerland and Colorado. Switzerland, "the playground of Europe," is visited annually by over 15,000 American tourists and invalids. Why? While the Alps have isolated peaks such as Mont Blanc (13,781 feet), and the Matterhorn (14,836 feet), the mean elevation of the highest Alpine chain is from only 8,000 to 9,000 feet. Colorado possesses more than 120 peaks over 13,500 feet in altitude, of which no fewer than 35 peaks range from 14,000 feet upward. In the whole of Europe, there are not over 12 mountain peaks of note. The highest village in Europe is Avers Platz in Switzerland (7,500 feet); the highest inhabited point in Europe is the Hospice of St. Bernard in Switzerland (8,200 feet). In Colorado the mining town of Leadville, with 15,000 inhabitants, is 10,200 feet above sea level; other mining camps are still higher and some gold and silver mines are worked at an altitude of over 12,000 feet. The highest wagon road in Europe is said to be the Stelvio road in Switzerland (9,170 feet). In Colorado the railroads cross the crest of the continent at Fremont Pass (11,328 feet). Marshall Pass (10,852 feet) and Tennessee Pass (10,433). Switzerland does not possess, even in the famous St. Gothard line, any railroad engineering surpassing, if equaling, these. There are wagon roads over numerous passes in Colorado ranging from 12,000 feet upwards, the highest being Mosquito Pass (13,700 feet). In Switzerland the cog-railroad from Vitznau to the summit of the Rigi Kulm (5,900 feet) has a length of four and a half miles, in which the ascent is 4,072 feet. In Colorado the cog-railroad from Manitou to the summit of Pike's Peak (14,147 feet) has a length of eight and three-quarters miles, in which the ascent is 8,100 feet, or an average of 846 feet per mile, the maximum grade being 1,320 feet. One class of Switzerland's finest scenery is along the Via Mala, the Schyn Pass and Urnerloch. In Colorado, the Canon of the Arkansas with the Royal Gorge, the Black Canon of the Gunnison, the Canon of the Ride las Animas, the Canon of the Grand river, and others, are all much longer, quite as grand as and more varied in character than the best passes in Switzerland. The walls of the Canons of the Grand river, the Gunnison and the Arkansas rise to a sheer height of more than 2,000 feet. As Colorado can be reached by at least one railroad—the Burlington—in one night from either Chicago or St. Louis, it is hard to understand why more Americans do not travel west instead of east in search of health and pleasure. At certain seasons in Scotland, when the fishing is not very brisk, the fishermen act as caddies and are easily recognized by their costume—a woolen jersey and trousers braced up to the armpits. One of these was asked his name by the gentleman for whom he was carrying, and the reply was: "Weel, sir, hereabouts they majestly ca' me 'Brecks,' but ma 'maiden' name is Broon." This is only equaled by the caddie who was asked who such and such a person was, and replied: "I no rightly ken his name, but he's a major something: at least he's not a real major, but he married a major's widow and took the title."—Scottish American. Discussion over our prize-money awards in the Spanish war brings out some old stories on that subject, the following being from the Argonaut: At the battle of Trafalgar a sailor found kneeling by his gun, as his ship was about to engage the enemy, was asked by the first lieutenant if he was afraid. "Afraid!" answered Jack, with an expression of the utmost disdain; "no, your honor; I'm only praying that the enemy's shot may be distributed like the prize money—the greatest part among the officers." -Detroit Free Press. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. Scotch Flahermen Caddies Jack's Prayer. SOME QUEER COLLATERAL. Glass Eyes, Store Teeth and Articulation Digits as Pledges for a "Everything carries its compensation with it, even a glass eye," said J. Y. Jaxon, the stage manager of a St. Louis summer garden, who has an artificial optic, and being a jolly fellow, doesn't care who knows it, says the waiter. "I'll never forget one night when Lon Raymond and I and George Denham and Jack Cheviot and Phil Branson were at Uhrig's cave (this was a long, long time ago), and we were dry—dry as a local option town after midnight. We were all out of funds and we were too lazy to go to the manager's office. We thought it would be funerary to stand off the waiter. Lou called the man over and said: 'Am I good for a round of drinks?' "You'll have to see the boss," said the waiter. "I can't all of us, collectively, good for a drink?" said George Denham. "You have to see the boss," said the waiter. "We'll give you security," said Lou, and with that he pulled out his eye and laid it on the table. The waiter jumped and before he could recover from his surprise I removed his hand and handed the mond's. Then George Denham took a full set of upper teeth from his mouth and contributed them to the pile of collateral. He put them on the table, and he uncrewed his wooden hand and placed it on the table with the eyes and teeth. "You can't leave me out," said Phil Branson, and after fumbling with his mouth a few times, he said, "The waiter weakened and we had a credit "The waiter weakened and we had a credit as long as we cared to ask for it." OVERSTEPPING THE BOUNDS. He Wanted to Pay the Person More But the Rules and Regulations Were Against Him. "The first charge I ever held was in a small town in the western part of the state," said a well-known minister, who was in a reminiscent mood. "The town was no very large, and my congregation was much toward the support of a minister, so they made up what they lacked in cash by holding donation parties now and then during the year to eke out the small salary that they received. "The first infliction of this kind that I had was called a pound donation party, at which everyone was expected to bring a pound of something or other. Among the congregation was a member who had more interest than all the rest to together, but he had the reputation of being 'near,' and I conceive that I looked forward with some interest to see what he would bring. I imagine my consternation when I undid his package and found nothing but a small small potatoes. "I met him the next day and had hard work to remember that I was a minister of the Gospel and treat him pleasantly. He was very private for a moment and drew me aside." "Parson," he said, earnestly. "I'm down right sorry that the rules and regulations prohibited me from bringing more'n a pound of them potatoes, but," he added, dropping his voice to a whisper, "I gave you down weight!" O--I--C When a preparation has an advertised reputation that is world-wide, it means that preparation is meritorious. If you go into a store to buy an article that has achieved universal popularity like Cascarets Candy or Cascarets Coffee, the endorsement of the world. The judgment of the people is infallible because it is impersonal. The retailer who wants to sell you "something else" in place of the article you ask for, has an ax to grind. Don't it stand to reason that a retailer who is not what he represents it to be. Why? Because he expects to derive an extra profit out of your creditability. Don't you see through his little game? The man who will buy you a box of Cascarets is a fraud. Barew of him. He is trying to steal the honestly earned benefits of a reputation to another business man has paid for, and if his conscience will allow him to go so far, he will go farther. If he cheats, he will cheat. If it is not safe to do business with him. Barew of the Cascarets substitutor! Remember Cascarets are never sold in bulk but in metal boxes with the long tailed every box and each tablet stamped C.C.C. Snored in the Wrong Key. A weary congressman who could "snow on the flint" occupied a room adjoining a German museum to give him to give me another room, I guess," said the congressman to the hotel clerk. "What's the matter?" Aren't you comfortable where you are?" "Well, not exactly. That German musician in the next room and I don't get along well. Last night he tooted away on his clarinet so that I thought I never would go to sleep. After I had caught a few winks I was awakened by a pounding at my door. "I don't know," I said the German, "you would schore of der same key. You *was* go from B flat to G, and it spits der moose." —Buffalo Enquirer. *Homeseekers' Excursions Vln Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad.* On the first and third tuesdays of June, July and August the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad will place on sale Homeseekers' Excursion tickets to various points in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas. One Fare (plus $2.00) for the Round Trip. Tickets are limited on going trip fifteen days from date of sale with stop-over privileges in Homeseekers' Territory. Redemption is limited twenty-one days from date of sale. Remember that we now have in service a new wide vestibulined train between Chicago and Waco and Ft. Worth, Texas, leaving Chicago daily at 1:50 P. M. Through Pullman Sleeping Cars and Free Reeling Chair Cars. For further particular calls on or address any agent C. Stone & Eastern Illinois or C. L. Stone, G. P. and T. A., Chicago. Sam Jones' Strong Points Rev. Dr. Frank Bristol, pastor of the Metropolitan church, in Washington, which is attended by President McKinley, tells a story which he heard one evening while dining at the white house with the president of the church south. The party was talking about revivals and revivals, and the case of the well-known exhorter, Sam Jones, was brought up. "The best characterization of Sam Jones' preaching I ever heard," said Mr. Jones. "I was a brother in Virginia. He had just heard Jones preach, and was describing it to some of his fellows. 'Just as long as Brer' Jones sticks to de Scripters, said the colored man, 'be ain't no better preacher than envy you' the Scrippers and just let them be de dogongete preacher dat ever pounded a pulpit."—Pittsburgh Post. Chinaman and Christian A Chinaman of great dignity and some splendor of dress was getting off an elevated train at Twenty-third street the other day, this crowdy called after him: "Say," the touch, "are you a boxer?" The other tough added some abuse and roared with laughter, after the Chinaman, who got off the car, then turned. He waited till the gates were closed, then he answered in laughter, the tough slunk into the car. "Say, you Clistian!" Then the gateman and some passengers laughed, and the toughs slunk into the car. -N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. A Bitter Drop in Joy's Cup: "Did the bride seem happy?" "Did the society map, assee put her wedding in a column of 12." -Indianapolis Journal. A girl may forgive a man for kissing her on the impulse of the moment, but never for apologizing for it -Indianapolis News. "Past master of political arts, eh? Is there any higher degree?" "Oh yes, postmaster, you know." -Detroit Journal. Do Your Feet Ache and Burst! Shake into your shoes, Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes light or new soles, Hot, Callous, Smarting, Sore and sweating Feel. It All Drugges. All Sweats. Shake into your shoes, Allen's FREE, address, Allen S, Olmsted, Le Roy, N, Y. of women for physicians? Old Doctor - I think they are all right. Why, we derive two-thirds of our income from women — Chicago Evening News. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromine Quinine Tablets. All druggistate refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. What profit a man if he wins the jackpot and loses on the next day's races? — Town Tones. CASTO For Infants and Childs Bears The Signature Of Cha H. Flu The Kind THE GENTAUR COMPANY, 77 MURRAY STREET WINCHESTER GUN CATALOG Tells all about Winchester Rifle Send name and address on a postal now. Don't WINCHESTER REPEATING so WINCHESTER AVENUE 30 FEET TORIA and Children In Use For Over Thirty Years The Kind You Have Always Bought MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK CITY. CHESTER CATALOGUE FREE Manchester Rifles, Shotguns, and Ammunition now. Don't delay if you are interested. PEATING ARMS CO. NEW HAVEN, CONN. ET OF B are packed away in your in order and doing business. It's a long way, with the refuse and clog the cleaned out every day. When this long ca- trouble—furred tongue, l yellow spots, pimples and food after eating—an all- CASTORIA For Infants and Children Bears The Signature Of In Use For Over Thirty Years The Kind You Have Always Bought Cha. H. Flitcher. 30 FEET OF BOWELS 1 2 3 4 5 10 9 11 12 7 8 13 14 Then you have the pillow than the morphine and wi The only safe, gentle sweet, fragrant CASCAR out the foecal matter with the whole 30 feet of bow and restore healthy, natus (Look out for imitations of results. Cascarets are new trade-mark, the long-tail find that in an entirely new promptly and permanent de CLEAN and STRO THE ALIMENTARY CANAL. 1 Lower end of mephagus (meat-type) which conveys the food from the throat to the stomach; 2 Cardiac end of stomach; 3 Pyloric end of stomach; 4 Duodenum; 5 Gail bladder; 6 Small intestines; 7 Cecum; 8 Vermiform appendix; 9 Ascending colon; 10 Transverse colon; 11 Descenting colon; 12 Sigmoid flexure; 13 Rectum; 14 Anus. The duodenum is continuous with the small intestine. The small intestine empties into the large intestine or colon at the caecum. The arrows indicate the direction which the content of the bowels must take in Made CLEAN and STRONG by Cascarets Get the pleasure if you want result! Tablet is marked "CCC." Cascarets are never sold in bulk, but only and always in the light blue metal box with the long-tailed "C." Look for the trade-mark—the C with a long tail—on the lid! BEST FOR THE BOWELS 10c. 25c. 50c. ALL DRUGGISTS This is the general tablet target sold in bulk. To any needy mortal, who can't afford to buy, we will mail a box free. Address Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago or New York. Made CL Casa BEST FOR 10c. 25c. 50c. This is the important tablet. correct sold in bulk. To any needy more Address Ste Passing of the Horse. So soon as nature sees an improvement there is a change. The candle gave way to electricity. The spinning wheel to machine-holding. The spinning wheel to hostetter. That hostetter's Stomach Bitters has been sold for over half a century, proves its value. There is nothing to equal it for stomach or over trouble. It is Nature's own remedy, and only one to cure dyspepsia or weak stomach. It Thrills Him. Quinn—She kissed her hand to the audience only once. That's not enough to go away. Do Fonte—Oh, yes; stage kisses are flexible. Every man in the house thinks that that one kiss was for him—Chicago Evening News. A Wife Equal to a Gold Mine A Wire Equal to a Gold Mine. My husband was in debt and I, being and to help him, thought I would sell America to the rich. I would do doing splendidly. A cent's worth of fuel will heat the iron for one day, so you have a perfectly even heat. You can iron in half the time and no danger of scorching the old iron, and you can get the most beaten every house, as the iron is so convenient and economical everybody wants one. I have not made less than five dollars any day I worked. My brother is doing well, and I think I can make lots of money anywhere where selling iron is the best business. Each the Roberts A. & O. Iron Co. St. Paul, Minnesota, are the sole manufacturers and will start any one in the business, as they did me, if you will address them. MIS. J. C. HARRIS. "This boy of mine," said the distressed parent, "has always been backward in his lessons. He doesn't seem to be smart enough." "You leave him with me," said the old-fashioned pedagogy, significantly. He makes him smart." - Philadelphia Record. The merits of the preparations of the J. & C. MAGUIRE MEDICINE COMPANY, of St. Louis, Mo., are above all question. The public will be interested in the fact that this firm has succeeded in furnishing the Army and has steadily grown in favor with the public, not having one failure to report in fifty nine years! Their Benne Plant, Dumurango, etc., have become a household word. They have steadily grown in favor with the public, let free, and if you ever get Diarrhea, Dysentery or Cholera-Morbus, give Benne Plant a trial. Every article made by the Maguire Medicine Company is guaranteed to do what is claimed for it. The benefactions of love are not original with us, but were ordained and predestined to our souls by the eternal goodness whence they come—Boston Transcript. It requires no experience to dye with Putnam FADLESS DYES. Simply boiling your goods in the dye is all that's necessary. Sold by all druggists. Goodness without graciousness is ugly and toad-like; if he has a jewel, it is of the head and not of the heart—Hoston Transcript. Pasco's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs—Wm. O. Endaley, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. It would require very little to make most of us happy—until we get it—Indianapolis News. Don't drink too much water when cycling Adams' Tutti Frutti is an excellent substitute. His Point of View. To Care a Cold in One Day Only fools fight friction; the wise reduce it-Boston Transcript. Pale and Weak Women Beauty and strength in women vanish early in life because of monthly pain or some menstrual irregularity. Many suffer silently and see their best gifts fade away. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound helps women preserve roundness of form and freshness of face because it makes their entire female organism healthy. It carries women safely through the various natural orises and is the safeguard of woman's health. The truth about this great medicine is told in the letters from women being published in this paper constantly. A. N. K.-G 1826 WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS PLEASE state that you saw the Advertisement in this paper. are packed away in your insides and must be kept clean, in order and doing business. It's a long way, with many turns and pitfalls to catch the refuse and clog the channel if not most carefully cleaned out every day. When this long canal is blockaded, look out for trouble—furred tongue, bad breath, belching of gases, yellow spots, pimples and boils, headaches, spitting up of food after eating—an all-around disgusting nuisance. Violent pill potsons or gripping salts are dangerous to use for cleaning out the bowels. They force out the obstruction by causing violent spasms of the bowels, but they leave the intestines weak and even less able to keep up regular movements than before, and make a larger dose necessary next time. Then you have the pill habit, which kills more people than the morphine and whiskey habits combined. The only safe, gentle but certain bowel cleansers are sweet, fragrant CASCARETS, because they don't force out the foecal matter with violence, but act as a tonic on the whole 30 feet of bowel wall, strengthen the muscles and restore healthy, natural action. Buy and try them! (Look out for imitations and substitutes or you can't get results. Cascarets are never sold in bulk. Look for the trade-mark, the long-tailed "C" on the box.) You will find that in an entirely natural way your bowels will be promptly and permanently Is taken Internally. Price 75c. A. N. K. - G TOWER'S FISH BRAND SLICKER WILL KEEP YOU DRY. Don't be fooled with a mackintosh or rubber coat. If you want coat that will keep you dry in the hardest storm buy the fish Brand Slicker. If not for sale in your town, write for catalogue to A.J. TOWER, Boston, Mass. 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Your grocery sells it. FRANKLIN COLLEGE New Athens, O. 8100 a year. Cate OWELS insides and must be kept clean, is. many turns and pitfalls to catch channel if not most carefully nal is blockaded, look out for bad breath, belching of gases, boils, headaches, spitting up of around disgusting nuisance. habit, which kills more people whiskey habits combined. but certain bowel cleansers are RETS, because they don't force violence, but act as a tonic on wel wall, strengthen the muscles al action. Buy and try them! and substitutes or you can't get er sold in bulk. Look for the "C" on the box.) You will natural way your bowels will be 1826 THE STORY TELLER THE RESTLESS ONES. The man who wants to do things, He's a very curious chap; He's the author of a few things That have changed the nation's map He has mastered the art; He has done his level best; He is lamponed or he's feded And he never gets a rest. They buffet and abuse him And he finds when he is through, They forget him and refuse him What is honestly his due. And sometimes his name is banished, Like a comet strangely night Like a man and vanished Somewhere far into the night. They never spared And that hustling, bustling fellow Eager to go forth and act— Possibly my heart's too mellow, But I like him for a fact. Of the martyrs I've been reading In that book compiled by Fox. And reformers I've been heeding. Who have graced the headsmans' blocks Perhaps I misconstrue things And should fling him cynic rhymes. But the man who wants to do things— Weil, we need him bad, sometimes. -Washington Star. Mr. Jobson's Vacation WHEN Mr. Jobson returned with Mrs. Jobson from the seside last summer he stood forth and declared himself on the subject of summer trips. "This is the last," he announced "No more of these iodic hot-weather jaunts for me. I haven't been comfortable a minute since I left home. Washington's a pretty good place to live in. It suits me winter and summer, and the next time I let anybody drag me away from my own home for a month or six weeks during the sizzling weather, the one that does the dragging—he or she—is going to be told a few things. I didn't want to go in the first—" "Why," put in Mrs. Jobson, "you know that you were talking about going to the beach with anticipation for weeks before we—" "No, I wasn't, Mrs. Jobson," interrupted Mr. Jobson. "I didn't any more want to go to the beach than I wanted to go to jail, and you're evidently suffering from an atrophied memory when you say otherwise. I wanted to stay home and be comfortable, but I was wheedled and bamboozled and coddled into kitting off with you to a swarming, teeming summer resort, where I had to sit on a red hot hotel porch and talk pretty to a lot of people that I had nothing in common with and that probably despised me in their inmost souls, and where I had to flounder around in ice-cold sea water every day because all the rest of the gang did it, and where I had to go along on cruises in sailboats and get sick every time you nodded to me that you wanted to go, and where I didn't get a proper meal of victuals during my entire stay, and where I had to push you around in a perambulator and look as if I liked it, just because all the other imbeciles down there with strong, healthy, 100-pound wives perambulate their wives, and where I felt in general like a salt mackerel in the bottom of a barrel. It's taken me a good many years to get this home together, and—" "Well, I am sure I would be perfectly content to remain at home all the year around," said Mrs. Jobson. "Don't you remember that I suggested last spring that we remain at home this year and get a new porcelain bathtub instead of spenning the money for a trip, and have the house painted all over, and get a new chiffonier and a modern refrigerator—" "You have a gifted imagination, Mrs. Jobson," said Mr. Jobson. "It's a wonder to me that you didn't take to the writing of fiction in early life. I'd like to accommodate you by remembering all that, but my memory isn't as elastic as it might be convenient for you to have it. I do remember, however, that you began to tinker with material for a new bathing suit as early as the month of March, and that you began to read the seaside advertisements in the Star paper before the lilacs began to show up on the market stands, and that you began to get letters from hotel keepers down at the bench, in response to your secret inquiries as to terms, long before the month of May dragged to its close, and that when the first hot day in June happened along you began to paint and to look wistful and to remark that you'd never suffered so much from the heat before, and to tell me that you thought I needed a change and the salt air badly, and so on." "Didn't you say two weeks before we started that you pitied folks that had to remain in the boiling city all summer, and—" "Boiling city, Mrs. Johnson?" exclaimed Mr. Jobson. "You never heard me make use of such a term in your life with reference to Washington. All this talk about Washington being a hot city in the summer is moonshine. It's cool enough for me, anyhow, and the next time you commence to look wistful before the summer's half begun, I'll send you to the seaside, all right, but I'll stay at home myself. I've had all the summer resorting I want in mire." This was the way Mr. Jobson declared himself upon his return from the seaside last year. It may be remarked that, in attributing to Mrs. Jobson a wild, unrestrainable desire to go to the beach. Mr. Jobson was, as usual, just a trifle beside the mark. However, it was a settled thing from the time Mr. Jobson issued his pronunciamento on the subject of summer trips that there would be no summer trip for the Jobsons this year. Mrs. Jobson was content with that understanding. She had never been particularly fond of the hotel existence and the incessant dressing and plunging about of a seaside resort. Frequently during the winter, when friends of the Jobsons would ask them where they were going when the summer came again, Mr. Jobson would expatiate at great length and with much fervor upon the complete lunacy of modern folks who think they're abused and imposed upon if they can't manage to leave their comfortable homes for a month or two every summer and rush to a crazy summer resort, where they had to spend all their time fanning themselves and fighting mosquitoes and trying to convince themselves that they were having a swell time. "Not any more for the Jobsons," Mr. Jobson would wind up, decidedly. "Folks who can't make themselves happy and comfortable and contented in Washington from January the 1st until December the 21st simply don't know when they're well off, and they're welcome to do all the summer resort gadding they want to. But I know one Washingtonian who will henceforth find Washington good enough for him the year 'round." Mrs. Jobson did not begin, as usual, in April to get her clothes ready for a summer trip. She was, in fact, rather glad to be rid of that bother. Nothing was said about summer plans, and she took it for granted that they would have a quiet, comfortable season of it beneath the shade of their own vine and fig tree. There were some humld, sultry days late in May. On the second humld, sultry day late in May Mr. Jobson came home from his office mopping his forehead a good deal and complaining that he hadn't felt so "run down" in years. It was obvious to Mrs. Jobson that he wanted her to suggest that they take a spin to some cool place, but Mrs. Jobson didn't have any such suggestion to make. She said she wasn't feeling the heat at all. Mr. Jobson looked sidewise at her, and then he went on to say that he thought Washington would have a pretty warm summer of it this year. Mr. Jobson saw a lot of pictures of young women in bathing suits in the fashion department of one of the papers early in June, and he commented upon how much more stylishly women are beginning to rig themselves up for salt water bathing than they did in former years. Mrs. Jobson didn't take the hint, and again Mr. Jobson gazed at her out of the slants of his eyes, as if waiting for her to say something. On Friday afternoon last Mr. Jobson came home with some bundles under his arm. He calmly opened the bundles and showed them to Mrs. Jobson as soon as he got in. One of the bundles contained a neat white flannel suit, another a yachting cap, and still another a pair of white canvas shoes. "Like 'em?" asked Mr. Jobson, jauntily. "Why, yes; they're nice," replied Mrs. Jobson, "but men don't wear such thin s in the city, do they?" "These, Mrs. Jobson," said Mr. Jobson, "are not to be worn in the city. They're to adorn the person of one AT THE SEASHORE. Jobson down at the seashore, where one Jobson and his wife will be about this time to-morrow afternoon." "But," began Mrs. Jobson, "I thought you had forever foresworn the seashore, and that—" "Poresworn the seashore?" said Mr Jobson, with an expression of great surprise. "Who? Me? When did you ever hear me say anything of the sort?" "Why, haven't you been saying all winter that—" "Not unless I said it in my sleep!" "But I haven't a rag made up that would be suitable for the seashore, and—" "Mrs. Jobson," broke in Mr. Jobson, with great dignity, "your husband, who is on the verge of prostration from a combination of heat and overwork, has extended to you a cordial invitation to accompany him to the seashore to-morrow afternoon. Your husband, madam, has been in the habit of going to the seashore for a part of the summer for a good many years, and he doesn't intend, at this day and date, to be chiseled out of that pleasure simply because you set up that old wall about nothing to wear. I should very much dislike to go to the seashore by myself, Mrs. Jobson, but—well, will you be ready to take the train to-morrow, that's what I want to know?" Mrs. Jobson was ready, and they went, and when they get back Mr. Jobson will probably make the same declaration about summer resorts that he made last year, and then forget it all over again. Mr. Jobson is a consistent—forgetter.—Washington Star Not Easily Discouraged. "Pollite society" is often at its wits ends to get rid of people who are not wanted as callers or visitors, but who will not take a hint; for pollite society cannot say in so many words: "I do not want you to come again." A French paper repeats this dialogue between two women: "And so so still receive that dreadful Mue Comeagain?" "Impossible to get her to take a hint! Do you know, the last time she called I never offered her a chair!" "And what was the result?" "Result? Why, the next time she came she brought a folding camp- stool!"—Boston Globe. Told by a Bachelor. Says an old bachelor lawyer: "The three most troublesome clients I ever had were a young lady who wanted to marry, a woman who wanted a divorce and a spinster who didn't know what she wanted."—Chicago News News Bidienplone Claim "The Camel claims to be self-made," said the Hippopotamus to the Giraffe "Does he?" "Yes; he says he humped himself." —Puck. JOHN W. YERKES. This gentleman, who has been nominated for governor by the republicans of Kentucky, lives in Danville, and is a graduate of Center college. He is a prosperous, college professor, in Center college. He is quite healthy, diabetic and popular, and his feet in Center college have been collected internal revenue in his district, and is the attorney for several railroad companies, he is regarded as the strongest man in the republican party of Kentucky. He is a splendid organizer and intrepid fighter. This gentleman, who has been nominated for governor by the republicans of Kentucky, lives in Danville, and is a graduate of Center college. He is a prosperous, college professor, in Center college. He is quite healthy, diabetic and popular, and his feet in Center college have been collected internal revenue in his district, and is the attorney for several railroad companies, he is regarded as the strongest man in the republican party of Kentucky. He is a splendid organizer and intrepid fighter. BRITISH LEGATION AT PEKING. From this building, one of the most strongly fortified of the foreign buildings in the Chinese capital, Minister Conger sent his famous dispatch of the 18th of April, 1845, to the army camp of the Japanese, with their families and families, retired to the British stronghold. Here they were defended by the sailors, marines and legation guards. Trenches were dug in the outer grounds and enforced with machine guns. It was reported officially that up to July 4 the Europeans had killed 2,000 of the fanatical Boxers, BOY CUT OFF HIS QUEUE. Small But Revengeful Chicago Citizen Does Not Wait for the Powers to Act. That nothing arouses youthful ardor so much as war has been demonstrated so often that it has now become an axiom. For this cause the inhabitants of the opponents of the United States are the enemies de facto to the lads who tramp the streets of Chicago. This has been shown of late in their antagonism to the Chinese because of atrocities committed in and around Peking, says the Chicago Chronicle. They have made faces at the Celestials, pulled their pigtails and thrown stones through their windows. It remained for a Clark street lad, however, to take summary vengeance on a Chinamen against whom he held a fancied grudge. Ye Kee is a rotund Chinaman, who lives back of one of the stores that line the east side of Clark. In the afternoon he is in the habit of stretch- JOHN W. This gentleman, who has been nominated Kentucky, lives in Danville, and is a great perous lawyer, and a professor of law handsome and popular, being six feet internal revenue in this district, and is panies. He is regarded as the strongest tucky. He makes a good speech, tells being a splendid organizer and intrepid ing himself on the little 244 porch in the rear of his home for a nap. The other day he lay down without anticipating any untoward incident that might cause him to wish he was in some other country. Dreams of the flowery kingdom and the delight of seeing his enemies suffer were infesting his brain when a dull tull brought him to a sitting posture. He saw a boy running away with a hatchet in his hand. He grabbed for his queue immediately and found it lying ne. r where his head had rested while he was sleeping. The mischievous lad had clipped the beloved pigtail very near to its base. OUTS WIN FROM BOOKIES. Race Track Hangers-on Describe How. They Caught On to a Good Thing. "It was just like this, you see, me, and Mickey came to Chicago to be on hand for the opening season of the races at Washington park from Detroit," said a short man with a sandy mustache and wearing clothes that BRITISH LEGATE From this building, one of the most in the Chinese capital, Minister Conger July. When the Boxers became rampant powers, with their families and guests they were defended by the sailors, man dug in the outer grounds and enforced officially that up to July 4 the European with a loss of ten killed and 35 wounded had seen better days around a race track, who was standing near the grand stand in Washington park the other day talking to a tour who was going to give him a good thing, relates the Chronicle. "When Mickey and I hit the town we didn't have a cent, so we had to beg our chuck and banner money from people on the street. The next day we were in for it good. No money didn't know anybody, only a few touts who only had eating money for them selves and had a good thing that would win in a walk and the odds were big. Mickey says, 'Pal, I tink I can get a few bucks to bet on a good thing, so he did. How he got it I don't know but in three days after he got it we walked out of the track with $2,500 in our pockets of the bookies' easy money." That is the story overheard by a man who was standing near the two alleged touts who were telling of their good luck since the opening of the Washington park track. "No doubt," they answered, "it was because she took the knave."—Chicago Post. EVENED UP WITH THE DOCTOR How a Chicago Sandwich Man Brought His Contrary Employer to Terms. For some months past an elderly man has succeeded in earning his livelihood by promenading the north side of Randolph street eld in a rubber rain coat on which was enblazoned in yellow letters the ability of Dr. Trueblade to remove corns, bunions and warts without pain. During the winter months the aged person found the job to his liking and kept the sidewalks clear of snow by his constant marching to and fro. But with the arrival of the summer hot spell the sandwich man tired of the task and spent most of his time in shady nooks along the line of his beat, says a Chicago exchange. One day lately the heat became so oppressive that sign bearing grew irksome and the man resolved to strike. After invading the "doctor"*s* office and satisfying himself that he could not obtain an increase in wages the YERKES. rated for governor by the republicans of graduate of Center college. He is a pro-sin Center college. He is quite wealthy, tall in his stockings. He is collector of the attorney for several railroad com-mit man in the republican party of Ken-good stories and has the reputation of fighter. wearer of the rubber coat sought the outer air, and after turning the rubber coat inside out printed on it the following legend in chalk: "Dr. True-blade will amputate no more corns until the sandwich man collects money enough to have his bunions eased by Dr. Callous." Callous is the chiropodist across the street. After reading the inscription he agreed to supply the sandwich man with a linen duster for the warm weather and increase his wages. RATS DECLARE CIVIL WAR. Internecine Slaughter Relieves a Chicago Police Station of a Peat. Another rat story comes from the Twenty-second street police station, reports a Chicago exchange. Not long ago the station was invaded by a colony of rats of various sizes and descriptions and no prisoners were kept in the cells for several days because of the viciousness of the rodents. A number of the officers were bitten while asleep strongly fortified of the foreign buildings sent his famous dispatch of the 18th of it in Peking the ministers of all the other retired to the British stronghold. Here lines and legation guards. Trenches were used with machine guns. It was reported he had killed 2,000 of the fanatical Boxers. in the dormitory and the 'pest was the cause of a great deal of trouble. Lleut. Alcock advertised for cats and a few of the residents in the vicinity gave the services of their house pets to rid the place of the pest. One of the cats was killed and its carcass was found in the basement. The smaller members of the colony were routed, but a number of big gray fellews refused to take orders from the eats and until one day last week did all they could to make life miserable at the station. Sergt. Carey says that they are all gone now. He declares that they divided themselves into two factions and declared civil war. The squadroom was their battleground and the sergeant says that he witnessed several engagements. After one battle he picked up the bodies of three warriors left dead on the field. The other night he saw five of them run out through the front door and since that time, he says, there has not been a rat in the station. The Sultan Wants a University. A university for the study of the arts and sciences is to be founded at Constantinople by order of the sultan. Home of LINCOLN'S ANCESTORS It Is Located In Exeter Township, Berks County, Penn. ```markdown ``` Young People "MANY A LITTLE." Little seeds make blooming acres, Woods from thy acorns grow. Little drops make up the brooklets, Brooklets into rivers flow. Minutes make the endless ages, Word by word the book is read. Grain by grain the wheat is winnowed. And the whole wide world is fed. Step by step ascend the mountain. Soon the valley 'neath you lies; Pile the little bricks together, See the statelest mansion rise. Just by one stone on another We walk the wall of China laid; History we saw, Work that man has ever made. "Many a little makes a mickle," As the canny Scottsmen say. Put the simple rule in practice, Learn a little every day; Here a fact and there a reason In your brain store safe away. When you need it, never If you add a mite a day! -C. G. Tharin. in Golden Days. A LIVE COAL TRICK. How to Put a Red-Hot Coal on a Handkerchief and Still Not Burn the Cloth. No one would suppose that it is possible to hold a glowing coal on a piece of linen or cotton without burning the cloth, but that such can be done is easy for anyone to prove, and at the same time the experiment teaches an important natural law. Every child knows that the telephone and telegraph wires are made of copper because that metal conducts sound well. It is also a good conductor of heat and electricity, which is only another form of heat. If a poker is heated in the fire you pick up a cloth to hold the outer end, although it has not been in the fire, because experience has taught you that the heat is connected through the metal from the fire to the outer end. This experiment with the flaming coal is based upon this principle, and HOW TO DO THE TRICK. the additional one that linen and cotton are poor conductors of heat. Take a globe of copper and draw a piece of cloth tightly over it, so that there is not a wrinkle at the top. If the linen or cotton is closely woven, the trick is all the more certain. Then holding the clothing tightly in place you can safely put a glowing coal on top of the cloth, and while it burns fiercely the cloth will not even be so corroded. The reason is that the great conductivity of the copper draws the heat of the coal before it can burn the cloth. Do not try this experiment with a good handkerchief first, for if the cloth is not tightly drawn it may burn; but take some worthless piece of linen or muslin, and after you are certain of your experiment you can astonish your friends who do not know the secret.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. A Hint to Stamp Collectors. A Hint to Stamp Collectors. Did you ever hold a sheet of white paper to the light and notice white letters or a figure of some kind in it? That is called the water mark. Most postage stamps are water marked, some with letters, some with figures, while others have some simple little character. Very few stamps will reveal a water mark when held to the light, but a simple way to detect them is to procure an old "intype" picture. Lay the stamp upon the back of it, face down, and drop upon the stamp a few drops of gasoline. The water mark, if the stamp contains one, will be readily discernible. Home of LINCOLN It is Located In Exeter Town It is not generally known that the ancestry of President Abraham Lincoln, before their emigration to Virginia and then to Kentucky, lived in Berks county, Pa., and that the ancestral home still stands in Exeter township, eight miles below the pros 1 perous city of Reading. Here Mordecai Lincoln, the great-grandfather of the famous president, settled about 1725, and built a stone house, which the ravages of a century and a quarter have not destroyed, as is evidenced by a glance at the picture herewith presented. He had a son named Mordecai, and the latter had a son named Abra- MUSKRAT AT SUPPER. The Little Creature Is Particularly Fond of Rushes, Which He Eats in a Peculiar Way. In the department of "Nature and Science" in St. Nicholas, we find this account, by William J. Long, of the doings of a muskrat: If you know where there is a colony of muskrats and if you don't know you can easily find out; any farmer or hunter will show you their village of green houses by the river—you can have no end of enjoyment by going there at twilight and calling them out. Squeak like a mouse, only louder, and if there is a pointed nose in sight, making a great letter V in the water, it turns instantly toward you. And if the place is all still, you have only to MUSKRAT DINING ON A RUSH. hide and squeak a few times, when two or three muskrats will come out to see what the matter is, or what young muskrat has got into trouble. If you go often and watch, you may see a good many curious things; see "Musquash" (that's his Indian name) digging a canal, or building his house, or cutting wood, or catching a trout, or cracking a fresh-water clam, or rolling a duck's egg along on the water's edge, so as not to break it, to his little ones in the den, far below. And if you like bananas, you may sometimes smack your lips at seeing him eat his banana in his own way. This is how he does it: First, he goes to the rushes, and, diving down, bites off the biggest one close to the bottom, so as to save the soft, white part, that grows under water. Then he tows it to his favorite eating place. This is sometimes the top of a bog, sometimes a flat rock on the shore, sometimes a stranded log; but, wherever it is, he likes to eat in that one place, and always goes there when he is not too far away, or too hungry to wait. Crawling out to his table, he cuts off a piece of the stump of his rush, and sits up straight, holding it in his fore paws. Then he peels it carefully, pulling off strip after strip of the outer husk with his teeth, till only the soft, white, luscious pith remains. This he devours greedily, holding it in his paws and biting the end off and biting it off again, until there isn't any end left—exactly as a schoolboy often eats a banana. Then he cuts off a second piece, if the rush is a big one, or swims and gets another, which he treats in the same way. And if you are a boy watching him, your mouth begins to "water," and you go and cut a rush for yourself, and eat it as Musquash did. If you are hungry it is not very bad. Skunk Pursued by Sparrows Skunk Pursued by Sparrows. While hunting on the flats of the lower Ohio a man saw a polecant attacked by at least 200 sparrows. He did not discover the animal's offense, but the sparrows were exceedingly angry. The skunk had taken refuge in a thicket, badly frightened, and was dodging from one side to the other of a log, trying to escape the savage attacks of the feathered tribe. At last the persecuted animal took to the open and ran, but the birds kept pace with him and fairly riddled his hide with their beaks. The last he saw of them they were still peeking away, and the hunter thinks they killed the skunk. Wanted to Be an Angel. "Oh, dear!" sighed small Tommy, as he gazed at the flaming posters across the street, "I wish I were an angel!" "Why do you wish that, Tommy?" asked his astonished mother. "Cause," answered the little fellow, "then I could see all the circuses at once." That Baseball Funeral. Employer—Was much feeling shown at your grandmother's funeral? Bookkeeper—Yes; they mobbed the umpire.—Harper's Bazar. LN'S ANCESTORS ownship, Berks County, Penn. ham, who became prominent in the affairs of Berks county during the war of the revolution. Another son of Mordecal, Jr. John, settled in Virginia. The latter had a son named Abraham, who was the father of Thomas Lincoln, father of President Lincoln- ```markdown ``` Numerous Lincolnns still reside in Pennsylvania, and the old home in Exeter of the progenitor of the greatest of latter-day American presidents is an object of interest to many; and should, in the opinion of scores of patriotic Berks county people, be bought by the government and converted into a museum. Mother with children The tripping feet—the sparkling eye—the graceful movement—belong not alone to the budding maiden. These graces are the right—aye duly of every woman until the hair whitens—and regal dignity replaces them. The mother who guards her strength has so much more to devote to the care and education of her dear ones. She should be a comfort—a cheer—always. Yet how many feel that they have the strength to properly balance the home? The world is listless, weary and morbid. Its blood moves sluggishly and is full of impurities. 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